Having it both ways
Oh for god’s sake. Does it not occur to him that trying to bully them into giving him the prize negates the prize? It’s a peace prize, not a bullying prize. If it were a competition for who is the biggest bully, he would win in a walk, but it’s not, it’s a prize for peace-making. He’s not a peace-making guy. He picks fights multiple times every day.
Norway is bracing for the aftermath of the Nobel Peace Prize announcement on Friday as the Nordic nation has faced increasing pressure from Donald Trump and his administration to award it to the US leader.
How do they not see it? If you demand it with menaces, it become worthless to you. Trying to pressure people into giving it to you makes it as valuable to you as a half-empty can of dog food.
Trump’s aggressive push to secure the prize, including public declarations he deserves it and calls to Norwegian officials, has intensified with a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and a possible peace deal. At the same time, the decisionmakers at the Norwegian Nobel Committee have signaled that this pressure has been futile.
Do the trumpies seriously think that demanding it will be successful?
In a social media post overnight Thursday, Trump’s son Eric asked his followers on X to “retweet if you believe @realDonaldTrump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.” The White House official account on X posted a photo of Trump calling him “The Peace President” at about the same time.
Yo, Eric, I don’t think the committee makes its decision based on retweets.
Less, I think. A half-empty can of dog food will still feed a small dog, but a Peace Prize obtained by being the opposite of peaceful won’t even do that.
Not to him. DJT operates a bit like the Star Trek Ferengi, interested in nothing but amassing as much latinum as possible, through “business,” and governed solely by the Laws of Acquisition. It’s immaterial to him that his efforts to acquire the prize by force will cheapen the award in the eyes of every rational person. DJT is not rational about these things. He’s a wanty-baby: any prize, any title, any accolade that society regards as valuable, this baby wants it too. I don’t know if he would be so focused on the Nobel Peace Prize if one hadn’t been awarded to Obama. Just as the polarizing enterprise of “sticking it to the libs/Dems” is merely increasingly-insane paybacks for Watergate, the demandiness over the Nobel Peace Prize is a purely instinctive reaction, to dish out payback to, or to one-up, Obama. “Nyah, nyah! I got one too!” He does the same thing, over and over. He creates and posts fake Time magazine covers with himself as the cover story. It doesn’t matter to him that it’s not the real thing. To someone with his pea-sized brain, his fake cover as Time’s “Person of the Year” is as good as the real thing. His gold Trump-coin souvenirs are as good to him as minting his own money. (Though now he is upping the ante on that, and looking to demand that the US Mint strike real money dollar coins with his image on them.) A Cheaty McCheaterson coerced Nobel Peace Prize is just as good to him as a legitimate award. It’s just the Laws of Acquisition in action. “I want” = “I have to have/ I’m entitled to” whatever his babyish pea-brain can think of next.
BBC Radio 4 had a piece on the ceasefire talks earlier today and played a clip from Trump’s latest press conference. He sounded distinctly odd. His speech was slow and lacking energy, his sentences were trailing off, he was pausing between words then quietly repeating the last couple as though reminding himself what he was saying, and he was slurring. In short, he sounded like a drunk mumbling to himself. I know it’s been said often over the last ten years but it really is starting to look like he’s in a rapid mental decline.
maddog, that attitude of just wanting the prize regardless of how he gets it and oblivious to how others perceive it gives him a lot more in common with transgender athletes than he’d care to admit.
Was ‘Chesty McCheaterson’ a Freudian slip, perchance?
@AoS #4
Yes. I meant to type Cheaty McCheaterson.
Nice litle country you’ve got here. Pity if something wuz to happen to it.
Honestly, I think the statement that Norway “braces” for Trump’s reaction to not receiving the prize is overblown. I have seen a few comments on it, mostly along the lines of “well, he is going to be upset but unlikely to do anything drastic”.
Depends a bit on who really gets it, I think. If it’s someone he really dislikes, he might declare them, and by extension the Nobel Peace Prize committee, as terrorists or terrorist supporters. And he might then impose sanctions like he did with the justices of the international court in Den Haag (as it’s properly called, unless you want to be super formal and say ‘s-Gravenhage (!)).
More likely, he’ll probably just bear a grudge, which could be an extra obstacle in the US-Norwegian relationship.
He did apparently call Jens Stoltenberg recently, to talk about the prize. But Jens¹ has experience talking to Trump after his long stint as the NATO secretary general. He did explain that the government is not responsible² for deciding who gets the prize. Whether that sunk in, is another question.
¹ We like to be on a first name basis with our politicians, at least the most prominent ones.
² Admittedly, since the committee members are appointed by Parliament, and many are retired politicians, this argument is not as strong as it ought to be.
Maybe he’ll just nuke the planet.
If the peace he brokered in Gaza holds, he might get some consideration in the future. But I suspect he was pushing so hard for it this year because the Nobel can’t be awarded posthumously, and so he likely won’t be eligible next year.