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| Donald Trump nominated for Nobel Peace Prize following Israel-UAE deal | |
| 2020-09-09 | |
| [Jpost] Christian Tybring-Gjedde, who nominated US President Donald Trump, told Fox News that he is nevertheless "not a big Trump supporter." US President Donald Trump was nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in reaching the agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Fox News reported on Wednesday morning. Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a member of the Norwegian parliament and head of the Norwegian delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, submitted the nomination. Tybring-Gjedde had previously submitted a nomination for Trump to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018 for his Singapore summit, which hosted Kim Jong Un. “For his merit, I think he has done more trying to create peace between nations than most other Peace Prize nominees,” Tybring-Gjedde told Fox News. “It is for his contribution for peace between Israel and the UAE,” Tybring-Gjedde, a member of parliament for the right-wing Progress Party, told Reuters. “It is a unique deal.” In addition to the Israel-UAE deal, the nomination letter to the Nobel Committee cited Trump’s “key role in facilitating contact between conflicting parties... such as the Kashmir border dispute between India and Pakistan, and the conflict between North and South Korea.” The parliamentarian told Fox News that he is nevertheless “not a big Trump supporter.” “The committee should look at the facts and judge him on the facts – not on the way he behaves sometimes,” he continued. “The people who have received the Peace Prize in recent years have done much less than Donald Trump. “For example, Barack Obama did nothing,” he told the cable news outlet, referring to the former US president’s Nobel Peace Prize win in 2009 for, according to the Nobel Committee, his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”
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| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #14 They could recall 0bumhole's, melt it down, and reissue it to Trump. Certainly it would at least be a step in the right direction. |
| Posted by: gorb 2020-09-09 12:38 |
| #13 Re #12: Not entirely. St. Teresa of Calcutta (Mother Teresa) won in 1979. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2020-09-09 12:19 |
| #12 Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, "Father of the Green Revolution", awarded 1970 Prize. After him the Prize has been a joke. |
| Posted by: magpie 2020-09-09 11:56 |
| #11 /\ The award lost all credibility in Oslo on December 10, 2009. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-09-09 11:25 |
| #10 Tybring-Gjedde had previously submitted a nomination for Trump to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018 for his Singapore summit, which hosted Kim Jong Un. I don’t doubt there will be even more reason to nominate him in the four years after he wins reelection. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2020-09-09 11:22 |
| #9 Nobel Prize committee will be the last lefty institute to change. They have no incentive to change. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2020-09-09 11:18 |
| #8 The left's heads are exploding. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2020-09-09 11:00 |
| #7 If he wins it, this will be a sign that the identitarian leftist cult is starting to fail. But I doubt it. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2020-09-09 10:05 |
| #6 I thought it was the Bee. |
| Posted by: York Harding 2020-09-09 09:19 |
| #5 I bet that's not part of the lefty/progressive/Biden playbook. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2020-09-09 07:31 |
| #4 ^Sarah Hoyt doesn't lend her shocked face out anymore. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-09-09 06:40 |
| #3 Trump was nominated but do not be surprised if “BLM” wins. |
| Posted by: Airandee 2020-09-09 06:36 |
| #2 You mean nominated for actually doing something to promote peace? /sarc off |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-09-09 06:27 |
| #1 Trump nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by Norwegian official, citing Israel-UAE peace deal |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-09-09 06:14 |