I & I Editorial BoardFor a brief window this week, President Donald Trump was out of the running for a Nobel Peace Prize, after a Ukrainian lawmaker withdrew his nomination on Monday for not ending the war there, and before Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., nominated him on Tuesday for the ceasefire between Israel and Iran.
You can imagine the guffaws and hair-pulling from the Trump-is-Hitler crowd at the thought that anyone would see him as a suitable candidate for this prize. But as much as we’d love to watch their heads explode as he walked up to accept the award, we think Trump should take himself out of the running.
Sure, he probably did more for world peace when he bombed Iran’s nuclear sites than any president since Ronald Reagan did when he left Michael Gorbachev high and dry at Reykjavík and sparked the end of the Soviet Union.
But why in the world would Trump want to join the ranks of other Nobel Peace Prize winners?
This is an award that was given to Yasser Arafat, a man once described as the “Father of Modern Terrorism” and who, two years after taking home the prize money, declared that: “We plan to eliminate the State of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion … We Palestinians will take over everything.”
It was given to Jimmy Carter, now the second-worst president in U.S. history after Joe Biden, whose weakness led to the Iranian revolution, a year-long hostage crisis, and Soviet Union advances around the world.
And does Trump really want to share an honor bestowed on Al Gore, whose only real claim to fame is getting fabulously rich by spreading lies and misinformation about “global warming”?
He’d also be joining the likes of Rigoberta Menchú, whose autobiography was later attacked as fraudulent and who the Center for the Study of Popular Culture described as a “Marxist terrorist now exposed as an intellectual hoax.”
But more embarrassing than all of these (as well as other dubious winners such as Le Duc Tho, Henry Kissinger, the European Union, Mikhail Gorbachev – not Reagan – etc.) is that Trump would be accepting a prize that was given to Barack Obama nine months into his presidency on the basis of …. absolutely nothing.
Like Carter before him and Biden after him, Obama showed the dangers to peace from weakness. On his watch, Russia invaded Crimea, ISIS ran wild, and Iran used his sweetheart deal to advance its nuclear ambitions. And it was this “champion of peace” who would go on to authorize more than 560 missile attacks in Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen, one of which killed a U.S. citizen, for which he apologized. Others hit a wedding party and a funeral.
Human Rights Watch concluded that two Obama-authorized attacks “were in clear violation of international humanitarian law – the laws of war – because they struck only civilians or used indiscriminate weapons.” Four others “may have violated the laws of war because the individual attacked was not a lawful military target or the attack caused disproportionate civilian harm.”
Nobel-Peace-Prize-winning Obama would later be accused by Cornell West and others of being a war criminal.
Why would anyone want to be associated with this crowd?
If Trump were to turn down the award and call the Nobel Prize committee out for its wretched history of lionizing leftist terrorists, liars, and imbeciles, he’d do even more to advance world peace than any of its recipients.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
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The Nobel Peace Prize has lost any dignity since being awarded to Obama & Arafat. It would be an insult to give it to President Trump. And if offered he should turn it down. Unless such time it is taken away from Obama & Arafat & repolished to it original dignity.
The NPP is nothing more than a vehicle to promote socialists, communists, and globalist dirtbags. Like the Pulitzer Prize, it is meaningless.
Trump will not, of course, but the author is 100% right. He should reject that once-great, now-fraudulent prize. Outstanding expose of these silly Nobel ‘Peace’ Prizes, which are thrown around like candy to the leftists.
Yes, the Iranian Nuke Sites should have been bombed.
President Trump has said that the nuke sites were totally obliterated and are now unusable.
But how true is that? I’ve read that an intelligence report was released questioning the success of the mission. According to a number of news sites the Iranians moved the fissionable material to other sites.
I just saw a former Massad high up official (in a Skye News video podcast) who believes the Iranians (“…being very clever people”) since they had notice that the bombing was going to happen, did move the important parts of the nukes so that the bombing only put off the Iranian nuke program for a few months-not years as the Trump Administration claimed.
I wish I&I would sort through this jumble of conflicting reports and come to a conclusion (based on the facts as we know them) as to what damage was really done.
I have to disagree. Mind you, I will admit that the Peace Prize, unlike the others, has been corrupted in that it has been awarded to people who did nothing to further peace. However, should Trump be awarded the Peace Price for having prevented a nuclear war between Pakistan and India, and an invasion of Guyana by Venezuela, his attempts at halting the Russo-Ukrainian War, and the Abraham Accords, he will have promoted/created more peace than any other recipient for having done ONE action.
Besides, it will enhance his international reputation, thereby giving him additional power. AND, best of all, it will create major cognitive dissonance among the leftist fanatics. That, alone, is worth it.
Btw, Teddy Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
There is an exception. The most important Nobellist ever, who saved a BILLION lives, was a peace prize winners, and an American: Norman Borlaug, PhD. Let him accept it in honor of Borlaug.
Trump should act like he’s accepting the award, but when he goes to the ceremony he should paraphrase some of your comments here and then tell the Nobel Committee to “Shove It!” and walk off!
The ‘prize’ has been turned into a trinket.
There will have to be a new one created for Trump.
President Trump should remember the example of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Ike was offered the Medal of Honor after the success of the Normandy landings; he declined, saying that he knew someone (Douglas MacArthur, who received the MoH after being evacuated from Corregidor) who got one for sitting in a hole.
By accepting the prize, President Trump will forever diminish its value for most of the world.