Donald Trump Jr. has, as soon as once more, demonstrated that the apple didn’t fall removed from the delulu tree, this time, by insisting not solely that his father is deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize, however that the Nobel committee is practising in reverse racism by denying the consideration to President Donald Trump after granting it to former President Barack Obama.
“Affirmative motion is when Barack Obama will get the Nobel Peace Prize as an alternative of Donald Trump,” Don Jr. posted Tuesday.
It’s arduous to even determine the place to start out in naming all of the methods this can be a silly tweet. Will we begin with the truth that Trump had not but turn into president when Obama was honored with the prize, that means Jr.’s use of “as an alternative” is senseless? How about the truth that Trump is hardly the primary white president to not obtain the consideration because the Nobel Prize was established in 1901? Actually, Obama was solely the fourth presidential recipient of the prize behind Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Jimmy Carter. By the way in which, since Carter, who solely served one time period as president, additionally gained the Nobel throughout Don Jr.’s lifetime, one can solely surprise if Trump’s eldest son can also be mad that he was honored “as an alternative” of the MAGA messiah. (Nobody really must surprise that. Clearly, “affirmative motion” wouldn’t have been talked about if he wasn’t uniquely salty in regards to the Black man getting what his pops didn’t.)
Trump Jr.’s tweet comes days after President Trump whined that he wouldn’t obtain the Nobel Peace Prize for the worldwide peace agreements that he has desperately been attempting to say credit score for.
From The Hill:
The State Division introduced Wednesday that Rwanda and Congo will signal a deal to finish combating in japanese Congo, the place rebels that Congo has accused Rwanda of backing have seized strategic cities since January. America was introduced in to help the peace talks on the request of Congo President Felix Tshekedi.
“It is a Nice Day for Africa and, fairly frankly, a Nice Day for the World,” Trump wrote in a publish on Reality Social, calling the settlement “a beautiful Treaty.”
However he additionally griped that he believed he might not obtain accolades for the deal, nor for a bunch of different conflicts that the US has helped resolve.
“I gained’t get a Nobel Peace Prize for this, I gained’t get a Nobel Peace Prize for stopping the Struggle between India and Pakistan, I gained’t get a Nobel Peace Prize for stopping the Struggle between Serbia and Kosovo,” he wrote, additionally naming conflicts in North Africa and the Center East.
Trump’s publish got here simply hours after Pakistan introduced that it might nominate him for the Peace Prize. India and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire in Might after a number of days of intense rocket fireplace between the 2 nations, an settlement that Trump stated he performed a big position in. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sought to downplay Trump’s claims.
Trump additionally stated repeatedly on the marketing campaign path that he needs to be awarded the prize, which former President Obama gained in 2009.
No, no — it’s utterly regular for a sitting president of the US to reply to information about warring nations reaching peace agreements by making it about himself and all of the awards he deserves for making it occur (which is actually simply to say he occurred to be the U.S. president on the time).
Possibly the Nobel Peace Prize shouldn’t go to somebody who solely appears to need it as a result of Obama obtained it first.
Additionally, perhaps the Nobel Peace Prize shouldn’t go to the president who impressed a home terrorist assault on the U.S. Capitol by spreading factless election fraud propaganda in regards to the 2020 election being rigged in opposition to him — a “large lie” that he continues to repeat even now.
Maybe the Nobel Peace Prize shouldn’t go to a person who has normalized spewing hate speech in opposition to immigrants, weaponized the Nationwide Guard and the U.S. Marine Corps in opposition to largely peaceable protesters in Los Angeles, and primarily determined that he’s solely obligated to uphold the Structure when he finds it handy.
Possibly Don Jr., who probably hasn’t been this delusional since he lauglably claimed “African American males” repeatedly cease him on the street and name him their “hero, thinks his dad needs to be honored by the Nobel committee for not likely negotiating a ceasefire between Israel and Iran after bombing the latter with the intention to destroy the nation’s nuclear weapon functionality, which, in keeping with a U.S. intelligence report that Trump obtained actually indignant about, the bombing didn’t really obtain. (Additionally, Trump bombed a rustic that didn’t assault the U.S. and reportedly didn’t provoke hostilities with Israel, however, certain, give him the Peace Prize.)
Look, in the future, Trump simply may be capable to whine, gripe and manipulate his means into receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, however it gained’t make him any much less of a bigot, propagandist, compulsive liar, felon, or one who was discovered chargeable for sexual assault.
Turning into a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize isn’t nearly what one has achieved (or, in Trump’s case, didn’t actually obtain); it’s additionally about character.
Possibly the prize shouldn’t go to a racist who spawned one other racist, who is just invoking “affirmative motion” now as a result of Obama obtained the prize after turning into America’s first Black president, versus Trump, who solely grew to become the forty third white man to be elected to the place.
Possibly it’s time Trump and Trump Jr. recover from themselves.
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