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.”
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…
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.