Above all, absurd
Political leaders in Norway have condemned the Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado’s “absurd” decision to present her Nobel peace prize medal to Donald Trump, accusing the US president of being a “classic showoff” who takes credit for other people’s work.
Good. It is absurd, of course. That’s not how this works. The whole point of it is recognition of Person X. Giving a physical emblem of the recognition to someone else entirely is dividing zero by zero. It’s like children pretending to be royalty or astronauts or moovee starrz.
Kirsti Bergstø, the leader of Norway’s Socialist Left party and its foreign policy spokesperson, said: “This is, above all, absurd. The peace prize cannot be given away.”
Absurd, pathetic, contemptible, embarrassing, childish, delusional, did I mention pathetic?
Trump’s recent threats to invade Greenland, she said, demonstrated why he was not a worthy recipient. “Trump will no doubt claim that he has now received it, but it cannot be transferred, and Trump’s repeated threats toward Greenland clearly demonstrate why it would have been madness to award him the prize,” Bergstø said.
Trygve Slagsvold Vedum, the leader of the Centre party, said: “Whoever has received the prize has received the prize. The fact that Trump accepted the medal says something about him as a type of person: a classic showoff who wants to adorn himself with other people’s honours and work.”
And a damn fool.
Flatterers!
This one of those “I can’t believe what I am seeing” moments. I guess in his mind he has now been “awarded” the Nobel Peace Prize.
Stolen valor.
Trump has been fooled. His name is at the top, in hyooj letters, followed by some guff about why she is giving him the medal, so he won’t read any further. Under the medal is a caption explaining exactly to whom the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded, and why. She hasn’t given away her prize. The medal is not the prize, and is just a memento. Having that framed on the wall of the Oval Office won’t impress anyone who reads it; it’ll merely confirm in the minds of readers that Trump has regressed far past second childhood and into toddlerhood, and can be appeased with shiny things. Machado has diverted Trump’s attention from a potentially low opinion of her, whilst ensuring her name is up there for others to see.