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... US Presidents who received the Nobel, like Theodore Roosevelt, who mediated the Russo-Japanese War, or Woodrow Wilson, who founded the League of Nations after World War I, earned it through tangible efforts in diplomacy, conflict resolution, or institution-building.
Even Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama approached the honour with caution and humility. Trump, by contrast, has pursued it with striking audacity, self-interest and desperation.
The brazenness was most visible in a televised pre-Labour Day Cabinet meeting on August 26.
Special envoy Steve Witkoff declared him the single finest candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize in history and urged the committee to "get its act together" ...
https://www.indiatoday.in/world/us-news/story/donald-trump-us-president-nobel-peace-prize-cabinet-powerful-world-pressing-norway-october-announced-steve-witkoff-2777628-2025-08-28
a kennedy
(36,352 posts)mr715
(4,170 posts)cept no, don't.
struggle4progress
(126,683 posts)Published Aug 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM EDT
Updated Aug 26, 2025 at 10:37 PM EDT
By Robert Birsel
Former National Security Adviser John Bolton said President Donald Trump's campaign to win the Nobel Peace Prize may be in its "last throes" as his effort to end Russia's war in Ukraine was "collapsing in confusion, haste, and the absence of any discernible meeting of the minds" ..,
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-nobel-peace-prize-john-bolton-last-throes-2119862
spanone
(142,062 posts)Sneederbunk
(17,642 posts)The prize is announced in October. Don't want TSF to get the prize or even a parting gift.
vapor2
(4,925 posts)plus Gaza deaths, then NO
Blues Heron
(9,035 posts)mr715
(4,170 posts)Don't forget that alumnus!
GoodRaisin
(11,062 posts)Krasnov is silent. He promised to stop the killing on day 1.
Buns_of_Fire
(19,222 posts)Torchlight
(7,066 posts)Mr. trump thinks its a commodity to be bought and sold rather than an honor which is earned... something he can't wrap his weirdly-shaped head around.
Conjuay
(3,108 posts)to rename the 'Defense Department'
the 'war department'.
Brainfodder
(7,781 posts)As if...
It is funny all the power mad shit when taken with a lot of weed.
Wake and bake... more than usual some days.
hvn_nbr_2
(6,817 posts)Trump has as much chance of winning the Nobel Peace Prize as I have of throwing a left-handed no-hitter in the World Series, and I'm a right-handed 78-year-old.
That they can even imagine the possibility is proof that they're bat-shit crazy, delusional, and living in their own fantasy world.
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