With hours to go until the announcement of this year’s Nobel peace prize, Norwegian politicians were steeling themselves for potential repercussions to US-Norway relations if it is not awarded to Donald Trump.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee pointedly said on Thursday that it had reached a decision about who will be named 2025 peace prize laureate on Monday, several days before Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire under the US president’s Gaza plan.
Taking into account the timeframe and the composition of the independent five-person committee, most Nobel experts and Norwegian observers believe it is highly unlikely that Trump will be awarded the prize, leading to fears in the country over how he will react to being overlooked so publicly.
17 Comments
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de · 44 pts · 332d
If you're worried that someone not getting the peace prize will have retaliation from that person and the country they lead, then they really don't deserve the peace prize.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml · 18 pts · 332d
"If you don't give me the Nobel Peace Prize, I will commit genocide." - USA 2025
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 332d
"I swear to shit I will nuke each and every country that doesn't give me a Nobel peace prize. That includes you Western Sahara, and you United States."
Nasan@sopuli.xyz · 19 pts · 332d
Give it to Obama again, just to stoke Donny mush-for-brains' envy even harder.
Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 332d
Revoke Obama's. The reason Trump wants one is because Obama got one and Obama ABSOLUTELY did not deserve it.
BarbudoGrande@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 332d
President Obama would agree that he didn't deserve one
Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 332d
I doubt that's because of the children he killed with drones.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 332d
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 332d
For the love of all things good and just in this world, can we please give this felon rapist fascist a Nobel Peace prize?
Has he not raped enough children to deserve it?
JiveTurkey@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 332d
That cry baby fat fuck doesn't deserve any prize and awarding it to him will destroy the award forever.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 14 pts · 332d
One could argue that the damage was done with Kissinger. And giving it to Obama for getting elected and not being Bush didn’t increase its gravitas either. Trump getting it would be a farce, but not unprecedented.
skisnow@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 332d
It's disappointing how much the "Obama got it for not being Bush" narrative has gained so much traction on both sides of the fence.
He won it for, quote, "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples". The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the award on October 9, 2009, citing Obama's promotion of nuclear nonproliferation and a "new climate" in international relations fostered by Obama, especially in reaching out to the Muslim world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Nobel_Peace_Prize
There's also a common theme of exaggerating how little time he'd been in office based on the dates of the nominations; the actual decision was made in October, at which point he'd been in office 9 months.
Eh_I@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 332d
Norway's bracing:
bomberesque@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 332d
If.
renrenPDX@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 332d
He'll order a hamburdr and diet coke, and a side of 100% tariffs is my bet.
Can they give it to Pope Leo? That'll set him off extra, as he's from Chicago.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 332d
Gods I fucking hate that man. Can his handlers just lie to him and tell him he got it? Hell tell him that Switzerland decided to award him two this year if he promises to not fight anyone.
Anyways mr peacey here is unleashing troops on his own citizens, shooting down merchant vessels from a country we've never even been to war with, and is actively aiding genocide in the country he's trying to create peace in
pineapple@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 332d
I wouldn't be worried, I'm sure there's no reason he wouldn't win it.
kablez@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 332d