President loses out to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado as his dream of surpassing Barack Obama’s achievements continues to elude him

Donald Trump has lost out on the Nobel Peace Prize after the Norwegian committee responsible for awarding the honor chose Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado instead.

Asle Toje, deputy leader of the Nobel committee, had already signaled that Trump might not get it by suggesting that his aggressive campaigning for the accolade might count against him.

“These types of influence campaigns have a rather more negative effect than a positive one,” Toje said. “Because we talk about it on the committee. Some candidates push for it really hard, and we do not like it.”

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    Obama’s highest approval: 69%
    Trumps highest approval: 49%

    Trump has literally never captured half the country. Obama, on the other hand, had a huge majority.

    Obama’s highest disapproval rating was 37%
    Trumps highest disapproval rating is 62%

    This has how far we’ve fallen. This guy is such a piece of shit. He knows it, and he’s punishing everyone for it daily. His followers don’t realize it, but they are getting fucked in the long term just as much, if not more.

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    Obama is everything he wishes he could be. Well liked, handsome, fit, in a loving marriage, won a nobel prize.

    PEDOnald is a vaguely human shaped sack of spoiled mayonnaise and diarrhea. Zero talent. Zero love.

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    I hate that language.

    “Donald Trump has lost out on the Nobel Peace Prize”

    No. He was never in the running. He lost nothing. Just because he was nominated by some obsequious sycophant, doesn’t mean he ever had a chance.

    While everyone else was in competition for the “race”, he was at the starting line shitting his diapers and crying like the giant baby he is.

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    He thinks he can get for doing the same nothing Obama got his before he normalized killing US civilians…

    I know it was 16 years ago and people might not remember, but he literally got a peace prize for the “promise of peace” and then later we found out he was drone striking US citizens during that time

    trump sure as shit shouldn’t get one, but Obama shouldn’t have either.

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      Everyone acknowledges that Obama’s Nobel Prize was a mistake – even committee members.

      https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/obama-peace-prize-1.3231064

      I couldn’t find a definitive link, but I remember that Obama was seriously considering declining the prize, or not traveling to accept it. In the end, he decided it was better diplomatically to accept it rather than snub the committee.

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        Yeah everyone knew it was a mistake shortly after the award. It’s amazing when supporters of a politician were willing to criticize them…oh the good ol days.

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      but Obama shouldn’t have either.

      Fair, but I still love that it annoys Taco and his widdle fanboiz that the Blah guy got a prize their golden god-emperor will not get.

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    Was this even a question? His rage boner for Obama has been the most consistent thing about him other than his virulent racism, which is probably why getting roasted by Obama was such a huge thing for him.

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    Terrible combative trolls who send people just trying to find a better life to terrorism super prisons don’t get prizes for internationational diplomacy and peace Donnie…

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      Henry Kissinger has entered the chat

      No, there was a real chance he’d wind up being awarded this prize. It’s always been the most politically manipulated of the Nobel prizes (some might say inherently), and trump’s undeniably massive influence through the global alt-right had a nonzero chance of swaying the prize to him, be it as an act of capitulation, bribery or simply that the prize committee had been infiltrated by his sycophants.

      That it wasn’t, and was instead awarded to a candidate who is both incredibly deserving of being honored and an incidentally-I’m-sure slap in the fat orange bastard’s face, is a deeply refreshing sign.

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    It’s pretty clear that Obama accomplished more for peace just by getting elected than Trump has in nearly five years as president.

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    If he doesn’t win one he’ll probably bomb them to show how much he deserved it.

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    Yep. The Blah guy getting the Nobel Peace Prize has been eating at the pedo-in-chief for years and years. It also eats at a whole lot of his racist knuckle-dragging fanboiz.