https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/our-impossibly-small-souled-president/
This week the president of the United States finally achieved a lifelong dream, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. No, not from the Nobel Committee — they will never give anything to Donald Trump. Instead, Trump did what he is naturally best at: He extorted it from its rightful owner, and then posed with it as a trophy.
Once again, there is nothing to be done about it except lament the unspeakably small-souled trashiness of our president, a man who needs to be bribed and publicly flattered to maybe do the right thing. Spare me your defense of “She gave it to him! She even said he earned it!” Nobody is fooled by the pretense. Donald Trump took office in 2025; Machado has devoted her entire adult life to opposition to Chávez and Maduro, and her party won an overwhelming election long before he retook power. Trump earned this prize in the same way that he earned the addition of his name to the Kennedy Center: by being vain enough to demand it beyond all reason.
Trump negotiated Arab-Israeli peace agreements, something everyone assured us was impossible. No credit though. I remember back in 2020 DT publishing rubbish claiming he had nothing to do with it.
ReplyDeleteHe arranged a ceasefire that got Israel's hostages back. No one though it could be done without a major surrender on Israel's part. He did it so again, gotta divert. What's he ever done to deserve a peace price?
No complaint that Obama, who actually started wars, got a peace prize though, right?