If there have been any remaining doubt that President Donald Trump was essentially the most pick-me president the nation has ever seen, it must be dispelled by his preposterous chilly name to Norwegian Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg to beg for assist getting the Nobel Peace Prize.
On Thursday, Politico Europe reported that Trump made the decision out of the blue final month, ostensibly to speak about his tariffs, however he additionally used the chance to make his plea for the Nobel Peace Prize. He even had high-level officers on the decision—as a result of apparently Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Consultant Jamieson Greer don’t have the rest to concentrate on.
President Donald Trump with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been charged with conflict crimes.
And this wasn’t even the primary time that Trump has buttonholed Stoltenberg about this. It’s not clear why Trump thinks pestering Norwegian politicians is the pathway to the prize, provided that the Nobel choice committee—not elected officers—chooses the winner. Maybe he simply can’t conceive of a world the place a rustic’s chief is unable to threaten or hearth everybody to get his means. However the Nobel choice committee is intentionally insulated from authorities strain. No present authorities officers can sit on the committee.
Trump has been nominated for the Nobel prize largely by overseas leaders who’ve realized that they’ll manipulate him with flattery. Main the best way is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has actually been charged with conflict crimes.
Throughout a White Home go to with Netanyahu in February, Trump whined about not getting the Nobel prize whereas discussing how Israel would forcibly relocate all Gazans. How peaceable!
Cambodia’s prime minister additionally did some sucking up, saying that Trump deserves the award for his cellphone name to the leaders of Thailand and Cambodia, which ended heavy combating between the 2 international locations. Sure, only a cellphone name. Actual heavy elevate there.
It’s not clear if Trump even understands the Nobel Peace Prize course of. The deadline for 2025 nominations was Jan. 31, and any nominations obtained after which are thought-about for the next yr. So Trump can wave round these nominations all he needs, nevertheless it doesn’t do any good for 2025. Come December, we’ll have to listen to him whine about not successful this yr. After which we’ll should do it another time all through 2026.
Trump’s newest bid for Nobel consideration is bringing Russian President Vladimir Putin to Alaska to debate a ceasefire in Ukraine. Provided that the final time Trump met with Putin he sided with the Russian dictator reasonably than U.S. intelligence companies—and the truth that he blames Ukraine for beginning the conflict—it’s unclear how he would enhance the “fraternity among nations” required to win the prize.
Additionally, it seems that his large peace resolution could be giving Russia entry to priceless Alaskan and Ukrainian minerals, which doesn’t truly seem to be a peaceable deal for anybody besides Russia.
However the Nobel Peace Prize isn’t the one award Trump is thirsting for.
Commerce counselor Peter Navarro thinks that Trump ought to get the Nobel Memorial Prize in Financial Sciences as a result of he “basically taught the world trade economics” for his “fundamental restructuring of the international trade environment in a way where the biggest market in the world has said, ‘You’re not going to cheat us anymore. We’re going to have fair deals.’”
Certain, that award has all the time gone to individuals with PhDs in economics or associated fields, for advanced issues like “methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships” and “analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity.” However what are these accomplishments within the face of Trump’s financial wizardry, which consists of randomly imposing and retracting tariffs and crashing the economic system?
President Donald Trump at a casting name for “The Apprentice” in 2004.
In fact, Navarro additionally thinks that tariffs are tax cuts, so it’s no marvel that he thinks Trump is a genius for beginning a commerce conflict with the remainder of the world.
Trump can be pretty assured that he deserves to be a Kennedy Heart honoree, a designation that’s given to individuals who’ve made important contributions within the performing arts. When rolling out his horrible slate of his honorees just lately, he groused that he’d by no means been named one.
Does he actually assume internet hosting “The Apprentice” was a priceless contribution to U.S. tradition? Oh, God. He in all probability does.
Trump can be thirsting for the Nobel Peace Prize it doesn’t matter what, as a result of he’s only a thin-skinned child who wants fixed reassurance that he’s the best. However he’s additionally pushed by the truth that President Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize—a proven fact that Trump merely can not stand.
Trump is used to throwing out each risk at his disposal and getting his means. However he can’t bully his means into the Nobel Peace Prize, and that’s completely killing him.
Good.
