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(96,882 posts) Fri Feb 15, 2019, 02:26 PM Feb 2019

Trump says Japanese prime minister nominated him for Nobel Peace Prize [View all]

Source: Politico

President Donald Trump claimed Friday that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe nominated him for a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to broker peace between North and South Korea.

Trump said Abe showed the president “the most beautiful five-page letter” that he sent to the Norwegian committee that awards the prestigious diplomatic prize each year.

“He had rocket ships, and he had missiles flying over Japan, and they had alarms going off, you know that,” Trump said of Abe, speaking to reporters at the White House on Friday. “Now all of a sudden, they feel good. They feel safe. I did that.”

The Japanese embassy in Washington did not immediately return an email seeking confirmation that Abe had, in fact, submitted Trump's name for the peace prize.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/15/trump-shinzo-abe-nobel-peace-prize-1171831

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Trump says Japanese prime minister nominated him for Nobel Peace Prize [View all] brooklynite Feb 2019 OP

And in other news, pigs can now fly. Vinca Feb 2019 #1

They can cstanleytech Feb 2019 #13

The Pope is coming over to my house this afternoon. thewhollytoast Feb 2019 #2

Watch Abe say he never did such a thing... mitch96 Feb 2019 #3

yeah, the nobel prize - that's the ticket.... NRaleighLiberal Feb 2019 #4

Gonna be given to me by...... gelsdorf Feb 2019 #7

He just got confused underpants Feb 2019 #5

And delusions of grandeur DENVERPOPS Feb 2019 #6

I was only half listening. So he really did say "rocket ships"? Demit Feb 2019 #8

Yes. He said that. janx Feb 2019 #15

I didn't realize North Korea's space program was so developed. Dave Starsky Feb 2019 #17

Nor did I, but janx Feb 2019 #18

Dotard wants his toys! 7wo7rees Feb 2019 #35

He also says aeroplanes Sanity Claws Feb 2019 #26

Not really. janx Feb 2019 #29

Two words..,,,,"He's Nuts"!!!!! Stuart G Feb 2019 #9

The PM will probably try to find a diplomatic exboyfil Feb 2019 #10

Anybody can nominate anybody for a Nobel prize sdfernando Feb 2019 #11

Sandra Bullock and I are getting married next month...I stole her away from that dude she is dating. Thomas Hurt Feb 2019 #12

Trump probably reminds him regularly he could bomb Japan all over again if he's not happy with Abe. Judi Lynn Feb 2019 #14

Right. Roadside Attraction Feb 2019 #16

He's not getting a Noble prize ... jb5150 Feb 2019 #19

The Mad King is nuttier than a fruitcake. He's nuttier than squirrel poop. Hekate Feb 2019 #20

... trusty elf Feb 2019 #21

Can I swipe this image? Cracklin Charlie Feb 2019 #28

Please feel free to swipe it. trusty elf Feb 2019 #31

So good! n/t Judi Lynn Feb 2019 #33

I bet PM Abe will be so pleased he found out he did that for Trump. marble falls Feb 2019 #22

I bet the Nobel nominating committee Apollyonus Feb 2019 #23

Trump did it all kwolf68 Feb 2019 #24

I want to hear more about these rocket ships flying over Japan. tclambert Feb 2019 #25

He has gone around the bend. Cracklin Charlie Feb 2019 #27

Trump is so great. Just ask him and he'll tell ya. Turbineguy Feb 2019 #30

Not The Onion? Totally Tunsie Feb 2019 #32

"Yeah, right" dalton99a Feb 2019 #34

Japan's PM nominated Trump for Nobel Peace Prize on U.S. request: Asahi Snellius Feb 2019 #36

Throwing tear gas and children and separating them from their parents Yosemito Feb 2019 #37

LOL at that! Blue_Tires Feb 2019 #38