Even as Fox News and Donald Trump work to pull out of the Iran nuclear agreement and raise the threat of conflict in the Middle East, not to mention with North Korea, Trump TV is campaigning for him to win a Nobel Peace Prize – or even two, according to one Fox guest.
According to a FoxNews.com op-ed headline, one reason Trump deserves the prize is because he’s not Barack Obama. The other reason gives Trump credit for peace talks between North and South Korea… that he’s not taking part in.
In 2015, the former secretary of the Nobel Institute, even acknowledged that the prestigious prize was awarded prematurely to President Obama – for achievements the institute hoped Obama would achieve, rather than for what he had actually accomplished.
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In contrast, President Trump has concrete accomplishments to his credit early in his term – the summit Friday and his upcoming summit with Kim.
But as The New York Times reported, while Trump’s “fire and fury” threats against North Korea helped bring Kim Jong-un to the table, it was South Korean leader Moon Jae-in who has “set the pace and terms of the negotiation with the North, though American officials say that Seoul is closely coordinating with Washington.” In other words, Moon is doing much of the actual peace process work. The Times also pointed out that peace talks between the two Koreas make a bad fit for Trump’s war talk.
Worse, if Trump rips up the Iran deal, as he seems poised to do, that would be disastrous for world peace on its own. But it would hardly reassure North Korea that the U.S. can be trusted. “Ditching a deal the U.S. helped shape could undermine American credibility at the negotiating table as it seeks denuclearization in the Korean peninsula,” Bloomberg noted.
Significantly, the Fox op-ed never mentions Iran.
Meanwhile, Trump’s BFFs at Fox News have repeated demands for a peace prize on the air - even as the network promotes bellicose talk about Iran. It’s hard to know whether they really believe Trump deserves a Peace Prize or if they think it will give him cover to kill the Iran nuclear agreement. Or both.
On April 24, Fox host Greg Gutfeld said on The Five, “You're going to have to take the peace prize from Obama and give it to Trump.” On April 26, Fox’s website posted a video from Fox & Friends First titled, “Trump doing the job that scored Obama a Nobel Peace Prize.” On April 27, in a lengthy panel discussion about Trump’s diplomatic prowess on The Ingraham Angle, “former Trump campaign adviser” Michael Pillsbury declared to host Laura Ingraham that Trump deserves two peace prizes.
INGRAHAM: If [Obama’s Nobel prize is] the benchmark, Mike Pillsbury, then Donald Trump, regardless of what happened, has to be almost a shoo-in for the Nobel. …
PILLSBURY: I agree. Obviously, perhaps, President Trump deserved two Nobel Peace Prizes. As you know the authority of these peace prizes is somewhat in doubt. It's a committee of five who are chosen by the Norwegian parliament and they tend to be retired members of the Norwegian parliament, so they made some real mistakes over the years. People whose Nobel Peace Prize was not earned. In the case of President Trump, this is a tremendous success.
Watch the peace prize propaganda below, from the April 27, 2018 The Ingraham Angle.
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No, the Pence White House is not going to be winning any Nobel Prizes -they are the laughingstock of the world at this point, at least during those moments when the world isn’t seriously concerned about the potential for our Tweeter-in-Chief and his minions to generate a nuclear catastrophe. The Pence White House’s approach to North Korea has been to repeatedly attempt to bully its leader in the most childish manner possible – with crude nicknames and bizarre Tweets. I honestly don’t know how anyone would think that would be conduct that merits any kind of award. Granted, if we suddenly witness a major breakthrough between the US and North Korea, I’ll be happy regardless of who the current president is. I just don’t know that we’re going to see any kind of major breakthrough. What we’ve been seeing so far has been North Korea taking advantage of the incompetence of the Pence White House and presenting themselves as the adult in the room and an equal to the US in negotiating strength. All of that inflates the importance of someone like Kim and diminishes the US in the long haul.
The only reason the Right Wing is harping on this is that they continue to resent the fact that President Obama earned a Nobel Peace Prize. (They also continue to fail to understand WHY President Obama was awarded the Prize – it wasn’t for vague ideas of what he would do in the future, as much as the Right Wing wishes that were the case. It was because the Obama White House had very quickly restored a sense of stability to the world and shown that the US was willing to recognize right and wrong and not just its own naked impulses. The Right Wing has never lived that one down, just as they’ve never lived down the fact that President Obama had the temerity to run and win two terms in the White House. Petulantly taking President Obama’s Nobel Prize away from him and giving it to Mike Pence or our Tweeter really is something these guys wish they could do. Thankfully, that’s not something that the Nobel Committee would countenance.