If It Happens, It’s Going To Be Insulting!

Many in the U.S. and around the world believe that it would be shameful for Donald Trump to get the Nobel Peace Prize and a new affront to the prize that has been awarded more than once for political reasons, while almost all the other award-winning nominees also have been U.S. citizens.

Presumptuous and seeming euphoric, last Wednesday at midday Donald Trump shared the news of his Nobel Peace Prize nomination in at least 16 tweets and various retweets to his almost 87 million online followers. Some consider this a new factor in his favor in his campaign to win another four years in the White House.

Twitter exploded with tweets in response, both for and against; his fans exultant, those in opposition indignant and conscious that, if Trump receives the prize, it will be a catalyst for society to collapse. The society in question is one that is already irredeemably dividing itself and marching against the most primitive forms of racism, xenophobia, discrimination and violence, all of which could move to the forefront of the U.S. landscape in 2021 if Trump is still president.

Trump was nominated by Norwegian Parliament member Christian Tybring-Gjedde, who also serves as president of his country’s delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. In order to propose Trump as a Nobel candidate, Tybring-Gjedde endorsed Trump for the role he played in negotiating a historic deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.

The propaganda campaign, which is undoubtedly what this is, was launched by the Norwegian in an interview with Fox News on Wednesday morning. “For his merit, I think he has done more trying to create peace between nations than most other Peace Prize nominees,” he said to the audience of the most pro-Trump of all U.S. TV channels. The Washington Examiner joined in spreading the news approvingly, and would not be the only publication from the right wing to line up.

“Can you imagine the riots and temper tantrums from the leftist mob when President Trump is re-elected and he wins the Nobel Peace Prize in the same year.. This is going to be glorious,” tweeted Matt Couch (@RealMattCouch), founder of the DC Patriot Journal, made up of right-wing journalists and loyal followers of the tycoon president.

The “this is going to be glorious” was arrogant enough to be retweeted by the conceited nominee.

Many in the U.S. and around the world believe that it would be shameful for Trump to get the Nobel Peace Prize and a new affront to the prize that has been awarded more than once for political reasons, while almost all the other award-winning nominees also have been U.S. citizens.

Trump’s nomination, like the others that will be presented, will be judged and determined by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, made up of five renowned members of the country’s Parliament. Currently the Parliament has a political configuration similar to that of the Nobel institution, some sources say.

Conservative analyst and political commentator Ben Shapiro also used Twitter to bluntly and concisely express his opinion: “Trump being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by far-right anti-immigration nut job Christian Tybring-Gjedde is like getting a letter of recommendation to be a firefighter by a pyromaniac or like, you know, being endorsed for President by Osama Bin Laden’s niece Noor Bin Laden.”

It’s not the first time that the Norwegian parliamentarian has attempted this, as in 2018 the same obstinate man nominated Trump, at that time for his efforts in resolving nuclear tensions with Pyongyang.

While the tweets, opinions and memes were flying around on Facebook and other platforms, the comments from around the world increased — some perplexed and indignant, others radiant and jubilant — Trump took up space on other issues that the Norwegian judges might take into account in their debate.

For example, in “Rage,” a new book by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Bob Woodward, he claimed that President Trump said he feels no “responsibility” to try to better understand how African Americans feel, a comment he made during an interview on June 19, a few weeks after the killing of George Floyd, who was choked by a police officer arresting him in Minneapolis, which sparked months of widespread protests against police brutality and systemic racism in America.

Instead, the head of state diverted the conversation toward how good the economy has been for African Americans under his administration and how he’d done more for this demographic than any other president in history.

Another issue addressed by Trump with The Washington Post journalist, who conducted 20 interviews with Trump for his new book, was the COVID-19 pandemic. In March, although he had recognized the danger — which he seemed to do privately — publicly, Trump downplayed the threat in order to avoid creating panic. It goes without saying that for a sitting president, this kind of behavior is fatally irresponsible and beyond demagoguery.

Trump’s election motivations, during a really critical moment for his country and for the world, are foolish and imprudent, and demonstrate narcissistic and opportunistic behavior … and even then, it’s possible he’ll still be able to retain his seat in the Oval Office and give an acceptance speech in Oslo at the Nobel ceremony in 2021.

Or everything is a big sarcastic joke, which is what happened in 1939 with Adolf Hitler, who was nominated for the prize — which he didn’t receive — but which was recorded in the institution’s records.