Nobody Wins the Nobel Peace Prize

[Ocelot II]

5. Quite true. It's awarded, not won. It's not a competition, though doubtless Trump sees it that way.

For him, everything is a zero-sum game. There were obviously a fair number of people and organizations who were worthy of the award (Trump not being among them), and the final decision can't have been an easy one. But I'd bet kroner to Krugerrands that Trump was eliminated early in the discussion. The criteria for being a nominator is pretty loose; they include just about any government official or legislator. That means that any half-baked GOP Congresscritter could have and probably did nominate Trump (Luna, R-FL; Carter; R-GA, Issa; R-CA; and Tenney, R-NY, that we know of so far), and let him know about it, in a painfully transparent attempt to curry favor. In further acts of international political theater Netanyahu nominated him, as did Milei of Argentina and government leaders of Pakistan and Cambodia.

Nominees who did not receive the award but who actually care about world peace would likely congratulate the recipient as someone after their own spirit, because they respect what the award represents and weren't lobbying for the award for their own ego gratification. Trump will just sulk and find someone to blame because he thinks he's entitled to it but somebody else "won" it.