The Trump Peace Prize nomination sparked controversy. The US media: Why was he nominated because of a lie?
[Global Times Special Correspondent Li Yong Qingmu Wei Hui Liu Yupeng] The Nobel Peace Prize nomination of Trump, who many Americans call "the big joke of the 21st century," is getting more and more lively.
Last weekend, a Swedish congressman announced the nomination of Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize on the grounds of mediating the agreement reached between Serbia and Kosovo.
Earlier, Trump had just received the nomination of a Norwegian MP.
Trump was very excited about getting "two consecutive mentions" within a week, and he and his team continued to use this as "a merit" to show off in the campaign.
Many American media and netizens were "stunned" by this surreal satire-Trump held high the banner of "America First" externally, kept withdrawing from the group, and tore up international agreements; internally incited differences and exacerbated them. Politics and race are opposed.
In particular, the failure to respond to the new crown pneumonia epidemic has caused the number of deaths in the United States to approach 200,000.
The British "Independent" bluntly said on the 12th: "Trump's nomination is a mockery of the Nobel Peace Prize." In fact, the Nobel Peace Prize has been controversial for a long time, and Hitler, Mussolini and other Nazi leaders have won Nominated.
Especially in recent years, the award has faced more and more doubts due to its political tendency.
Hong Kong's "Oriental Daily" stated: "The peace prize winners must have more blood on their hands than those of us. Knowing this, it's no surprise that Trump was nominated or even won."
Trump team started playing "Noble Medal"
According to Fox News on the 12th, after helping Serbia and Kosovo reach an agreement to normalize economic relations, President Trump was again nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize.
Swedish MP Magnus Jacobsen said on the 11th that he has nominated the Trump administration and the governments of Kosovo and Serbia to compete for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Jacobson said that this is because the Trump administration, Serbia and Kosovo "through the cooperation agreement signed at the White House, work together for peace and economic development."
This is Trump's second Nobel Peace Prize nomination in a week.
On the 9th, Norwegian right-wing Congressman Tabrin Gide nominated Trump as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize on the grounds that he promoted the normalization of relations between Israel and the UAE.
"Trump has been nominated for another Nobel Prize... It is very obvious that he deserves the Nobel Prize." Laura Ingraham, a Fox News host who supports Trump, said on the program.
Trump himself is very excited about this.
Last week, within half an hour after he learned that he was nominated by Tabrin Gide, he posted 17 tweets in a row.
The British "Guardian" claimed that Trump "showed off" to supporters when he was speaking at a rally in Freeland, Michigan, that he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The New York Times said on the 12th that Trump has never concealed his desire to become a Nobel Prize winner.
In February last year, he took the initiative to tell reporters that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had nominated him for the award in recognition of his foreign policy toward North Korea.
On the evening of the 11th, US Ambassador to Iceland Gunter praised Trump on Twitter, saying that no one is more qualified to win the prize.
Trump quickly retweeted this tweet.
Trump's campaign team also quickly launched the "Nobel Medal", but made a joke.
The Russian Satellite Network reported that Trump's two Nobel Peace Prize nomination was stolen by the paid advertisements of his campaign team on Facebook.
When many U.S. netizens posted posts commemorating the 2,997 people who died on September 11, 2001, Trump’s re-election campaign was too hasty and included the "Nobel" in the ad slogan "President Trump was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize." The word Nobel is misspelled as "Noble" (Noble).
There is controversy in the U.S. and international public opinion fields.
The New York Times said on the 12th that Trump was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize twice within a week, and each nomination came from a right-wing Scandinavian politician. This nomination was ridiculed and ridiculed all over the world. Repel.
The US Mashable news blog website stated that after Trump was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, there were spoof emojis and jokes everywhere on the Internet.
The United States under Trump is a mess.
As we all know, he mishandled the new crown pneumonia crisis, and the number of confirmed and dead cases of new crown pneumonia in the United States ranks first in the world.
He failed to resolve the racism problem in his country. Recently, "black people are also fate" protests have taken place across the country, and he reacted fiercely to this.
Someone wrote on Twitter: "Well, now 2020 is really crazy."
“Trump’s nomination is a mockery of the Nobel Peace Prize.” The British newspaper The Independent stated on the 12th that Trump is not suitable for being nominated, not only because of his provocative rants and nuclear weapons on Twitter. The threat of war, he failed to deal with the continuing systemic inequality, and basically refused to deal with the climate crisis, and led to a huge number of deaths from the new crown virus.
This is not peace.
“It’s hard to imagine anyone less worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize.” said Tim Wright, one of the 2017 Peace Prize winners. “He incited violence against his own citizens, gave up long-standing arms control agreements, and took advantage of everything. Opportunities to undermine multilateralism. His few diplomatic initiatives, such as the summit with North Korea, are nothing more than photographs."
Nobel "will turn over in the coffin"
Trump and the Nobel Peace Prize nomination can be described as "very deep."
In February last year, Japan's "Asahi Shimbun" broke the news that in the fall of 2018, Abe nominated Trump as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize at the request of the US government.
After the 2018 U.S.-North Korea summit in Singapore, Tabling-Gide also nominated Trump as a candidate for the 2019 Peace Prize.
However, Trump did not win in the end.
On the 13th, there was also a message on social media that "the Nobel Committee stated that Trump's nomination for the Peace Prize was forged."
However, the news actually came from an old report in the New York Times in February 2018. At that time, the Nobel Prize Committee stated that they found a forged Trump Peace Prize nomination letter, and it appeared for the second time.
According to some analyses, Trump’s chances of winning this time are still small, but for him to be nominated can already make a big fuss, especially at the critical moment of the election.
The New York Times stated on the 12th that given Trump’s reputation as a “dangerous saboteur” around the world, he is unlikely to receive a call from Oslo for the award.
But the White House is still very happy.
After being nominated for the first time for contributing to an agreement between Israel and the UAE, White House spokesperson McNerney called it "a hard-won and well-deserved honor for the President."
US "Newsweek" said on the 12th that Serbia's former foreign minister Jeremić, who served as chairman of the 67th session of the UN General Assembly, said that Trump's Nobel Peace Prize nomination "should not be viewed outside the context of the US presidential campaign."
According to reports, the texts of the agreements signed by Serbia and Kosovo under Trump's supervision are inconsistent.
Jeremiah said that the signing of two non-binding agreements at the White House is neither historical nor sustainable. "This is just a one-time photo opportunity for President Trump."
RIA Novosti on the 12th quoted the Russian State Duma Congressman Morozov as saying: "If Nobel knew that such a person would be awarded the Peace Prize in his name, he would have turned over in the coffin. Because we saw the United States and its leaders. It is doing its utmost to disrupt international relations and order, and it does not benefit other countries. Serbia is an agreement signed under tremendous pressure from Western countries."
The people who are eligible to nominate the Nobel Peace Prize are very broad.
The British newspaper The Independent stated on the 12th that current or former members of the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee and peace prize winners can be nominated, politicians and heads of state can also nominate, and members of the International Court of Justice and the Permanent Court of Arbitration can also be nominated.
In addition, university professors, honorary professors and associate professors in history, society, law and other majors can also be nominated.
"Trump was nominated for the Nobel Prize? For what, is it a lie?" The Los Angeles Times wrote a letter to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee with this as the title, in an ironic tone, frankly, considering his lies. I am surprised that Trump was not nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
US media: the peace prize should be abolished
Unlike the Nobel Prize in Natural Science, the Peace Prize has long been controversial.
According to The Scotsman, because the nomination process is extensive and easy to use, the Nobel Peace Prize is also a tool and easy to manipulate. Both Hitler and Mussolini were nominated back then.
In recent years, the Nobel Peace Prize has been more questioned due to politicization.
Euronews said on the 9th that observers often accused the Nobel Committee of selecting winners out of political motives.
The Turkish TRTWorld news website stated that the Nobel Prize Committee has been criticized because it often commends those who instigate war rather than truly promote peace.
In 2009, US President Barack Obama received the Peace Prize only 9 months after taking office. Unfortunately, Obama continued many of Bush’s war policies.
On Quora, a question-and-answer website known as the US version of Zhihu, there is a special topic: "Is the Nobel Peace Prize a joke?" It can be seen that even in the West, it is very controversial.
Earlier this year, several anti-China members of the US Congress also jointly named their so-called "Hong Kong Democracy Movement" to compete for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize.
In this regard, Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post questioned on the 12th that if Hong Kong protesters deserve the peace award, shouldn’t the American “black’s life and fate” protesters deserve the award even more?
The article ironically said, however, this requires real courage, because this will be a slap in the face of Trump. He condemned the US demonstrators as "thugs", "terrorists" and "losers."
"Ending the Nobel Peace Prize," the Atlantic Monthly said on the 11th that the Nobel Committee had not awarded the Peace Prize 19 times, the most recent being in 1972.
The committee should resume its tradition of not awarding peace prizes to anyone, and perhaps it should always be.
Historically, the achievements of the Peace Prize winners have been uneven and the reasons for winning are varied. Therefore, the committee should take time to consider whether the Peace Prize is a category worthy of recognition.
The article stated that instead of becoming a bargaining chip for nominees trying to attract attention, it would be better to abolish the award.