President didn't receive Nobel Prize — but why?
Supposedly, President Donald Trump didn’t receive the Nobel Peace Prize this year because he wasn’t nominated for it before the deadline last January. I have a problem with this explanation, and not just because only one of the five people charged with choosing the winner is conservative.
Who, after all, nominated former President Barack Obama for the prize when he had just been elected president and hadn’t done anything to promote peace or reduce global warming? Yes, he supposedly got the prize for preventing wars by reducing the world’s temperature. Trump, on the other hand was nominated a month before the January deadline by U.S. Rep. Claudia Tenney for putting together the Abraham Accords (during his first term). That was a truly revolutionary accord which brought together a number of Arab and/or Muslim countries with Jewish Israel for purposes of trade and dialogue.
What’s more, after the nomination deadline Donald Trump ended some seven (going on eight) wars. That included a conflict between two nuclear powers, India and Pakistan, which could well have affected the entire world through nuclear fallout. He basically told them that, if they wanted to be able to continue trading with the United States, they’d better lay down their arms.
His most recent effort, of course, was an attempt to end the battle between Hamas and Israel and free the remaining hostages. It seems likely that those hostages will have been freed by the time this issue of the Advance News goes to press. Trump has done more to end wars than any other president and certainly deserves to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
Jimmy Carter got it in 2002 for brokering a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt which horrified most of the Arab states and resulted in Egypt’s president, Anwar Sadat, being assassinated by Muslim militants.
Al Gore got one in 2007 by flying around on fuel guzzling jets while speaking ineffectually against global warming and air pollution. Donald Trump didn’t get one in 2025 because he has taken a stance against liberal policies that weaken the West by deindustrializing in the name of opposing climate change. That is, at least, the most plausible supposition. The Nobel committee loves to hate climate change.
This year’s recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize must have shocked the committee when she praised President Trump and credited him with deserving the prize. Maria Carina Machado, a Venezualian opposition leader against Maduro, has spoken out forcefully in favor of Trump and appreciates his backing against Venezuala’s communist dictator.
It appears that Trump will have to be content with being a Nobel Peace Prize winner by proxy.
Only four United States presidents have won the Nobel Peace Prize, and only one of them was a Republican.
Teddy Roosevelt won it at the turn of the century for ending the war between Russia and Japan.
His choice, incidentally, was highly criticized by the left. The three democrats who received the award were Woodrow Wilson (for his part in ending World War I), Jimmy Carter, and Barack Obama.
Add Democrat Vice President Al Gore to the mix, and it appears the committee’s choices have long been decidedly tilted in favor of democrats.
President Trump has received two additional nominations this year. One was by the government of Pakistan. The other was by Israel’s Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Both of these nominations, however, were made after the February 1st deadline. One has to wonder, however, if they would have swayed the committee if they had been made before the deadline. Probably not. The Nobel Prize committee seems to be running a little short on nobility.