“That’s completely unheard of,” Janne Haaland Matlary, a professor with the University of Oslo and a former politician, told public broadcaster NRK. “It’s a total lack of respect for the award, on her part,” she said, calling the act “meaningless” and “pathetic.”
LOL @ the both of them.
It would be funny if the committee said that no one can have two Nobel peace prize medals so Trump can’t be nominated again.
It’s funny that he thinks this will mean people see him as the winner, in the future, and not a petty little bitch. This will literally have the opposite effect of what he’s looking for.
The award lost any respectability it might have had the second it was given to Henry Kissinger.
And her as well. She’s just Venezuelan trump.
Una vendepatrias
It’s not transferable. She gave him the gold trinket because that’s how you play Trump, but Trump doesn’t get the actual peace prize assigned to him. People in here talking as if Trump actually got it.
He’ll just go around telling everyone that’s the Nobel Prize he won for ‘liberating’ ven.
Well, it’s Lemmy, so you can figure out the rest.
Anyone got an article that doesn’t require agreeing to a fucking arbitration and class action waiver to read? jesus fucking christ bloomberg.
You’re right, sorry for the oversight, I added one now. (I just used Firefox reader mode.)
Him pushing for and then accepting someone else’s peace prize award says everything anyone needs to know about him: he’s the biggest asshole in the world and has no shame.
Don’t forget the middle part where he used the US military to kill a bunch of people and kidnap her main political foe.
I believe that if I were a past recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize I would be returning it. Not the money though, because fuck 'em, I’ll keep the money.
Yeahbut . . . See, we already knew that. Like, almost a decade ago that was crystal clear.
For sure, as a New Yorker, I’ve known longer than that, but it still amazes me that there are people who don’t know yet.
I hold he’s afraid of dying because he’s so close to death’s door that he’s doing the prosperity gospel’s thing of trying to look good for god. He’s siphoning all the money he can, getting awards and structures built for him thinking it’s his way into heaven. Because a man like that would see holy salvation as transactional.
Then revoke it from her. It won’t stop Trump from having his physical participation trophy. But it will put a big fat asterisk next to that year’s every and send a message to future winners.
Better still, let the spite flow through them: revoke it and award that year to someone who Trump fucking hates.
They’ve already stated that the prize cannot be transferred or revoked.
Revoking send a stronger message.
Wow. I’m gonna start using the phrase «on a scale from zero to Maria Corina Machado regifting her Nobel prize, how desperate and useless are you right now?»
Give the prize to a shit person, expect shit behaviour.
Also, Trump is a fucking spoiled toddler. He is an octogenarian Dudley Dursley.
Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt, Mike Teevee, and Horace Slugworth combined and aged up 125 years
I mean, that’s kinda what you get for giving it to a loser in the first place.
The way I see it the Nobel Peace Prize committee can do one of two things to save the reputation of the award:
- stop giving out the award and dissolve the committee or
- make a rule that it can’t be awarded to politicians.
Nah, they awarded the right person who’s still doing the peace prizey thing for their country.
Or maybe give everyone an award at this point and make it meaningless
It became meaningless when they awarded it to Henry Kissinger. It’s been worthless ever since. The whole Nobel Prize is laughable. Don’t you know we live in opposite land?? Ultra rightwing lady abjectly begs the US to invade her own country …. and she gets awarded a peace prize?!?!
Holy crap I didn’t even know this… And I thought it was meaningless when they gave it to Obama
Why did they give it to a known trump collaborator lmaooo
The same reason they gave it to Obama right before he started bombing civilians in the middle east with drones. It’s a political maneuver that backfired.
Exactly. The peace prize means nothing. Hasn’t since Kissinger got it. 🤡
Because there were (and still are) real problems in Venezuela. She is a key figure in the opposition, and it’s widely suspected that the opposition party won the last election, but Maduro’s party fucked with the vote.
In a sane world that respects Democracy, it sends a statement that the popular will should be respected, and that the Maduro government was illegitimate. I don’t think the Nobel committee expected their award to precipitate armed intervention, which is the opposite of peace.
It’s even more ironic because it’s not like the will of the Venezuelan people is being honored, even now. Trump is ignoring Machado’s party (even after “accepting” that gift of the medal) and is extorting what is left of the government in Venezuela to funnel oil money into a secret bank account.
Basically, the award makes sense in a pre-Trump world, but he has changed all the rules. That last cheeseburger can’t come fast enough…
I don’t think the Nobel committee expected their award to precipitate armed intervention, which is the opposite of peace.
Then they’re idiots and the prize itself is worthless. That was clear as day going to be the promoted result. If they just wanted to promote democracy they could have easily chosen an activist in a country not in the process of being attacked or an activist that wasn’t currently encouraging war.
I don’t give them the benefit of assumed stupidity. I think they were neoliberals who were particularly concerned by the nationalized interested in Venezuela and who thought even if they found him abhorrent Trump could be a good tool to help set the imperialist-capitalist world back arright.
Then they’re idiots and the prize itself is worthless.
It’s been that way at least since they gave it to known war-monger Henry Kissinger…
Then they’re idiots and the prize itself is worthless.
I don’t think we disagree on that point…
Then they’re idiots and the prize itself is worthless.
Kissinger on line two, chief.
He already got that sweet fifa piece prize, how much more proof of how peaceful he is does he need. I guess he’s gonna liberate the Greenlandic peace prize next.
For how fucking worthless all this is now, at least the pageantry is telling.
Did he at least give her a big golden chair she can sit in while she watches him fuck her country?
The Nobel prizes are silly to begin with. This just makes that more plain to see.
