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US President Donald Trump on Wednesday reveled in the nomination of a right-wing Norwegian politician for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize.
“Thank you!” He said in one of a series of tweets and retweets celebrating the nomination, that he cited Trump’s role in brokering a deal to normalize relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
Norwegian Member of Parliament Christian Tybring-Gjedde told AFP that he has nominated the Republican because of the “unique and historic agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, an agreement that we hope can be extended to other Arab countries so that we can have peace. in the Middle East. “
Tybring-Gjedde, a member of the right-wing anti-immigration Progressive Party, is vice chairman of the Norwegian parliament’s defense and foreign affairs committee.
He unsuccessfully proposed Trump, along with another lawmaker, for the Nobel in 2018, citing his rapprochement with North Korea.
That spectacular attempt to break the United States’ confrontation with the isolated nuclear-armed dictatorship has since lost momentum.
Hundreds of people are nominated each year for Nobel Prizes, with no guarantee of being chosen.
The Norwegian Nobel Institute welcomes all nominations, provided they are submitted by January 31 for the year in question and submitted by those eligible to nominate, including members of the country’s parliament.
Trump has previously complained that he has not been considered more seriously for the peace prize, expressing bitterness that his Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama, received the prestigious honor at the beginning of his first term in 2009.
“They gave it to Obama. He didn’t even know what he had bought it for. He was there for about 15 seconds and he won the Nobel Prize, “Trump said last year. “I’ll probably never get it.”
According to Tybring-Gjedde, Trump deserves more than many awardees in the past for his role in breaking the impasse between Israel and an Arab regional power.
“Whether it is the Camp David accords of 1978 or the Oslo accords of 1993, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the protagonists and this accord is at least as revolutionary for the Middle East,” he said.
Tybring-Gjedde said the Nobel committee should not be swayed by any controversy over Trump’s divisive style.
“For Nobel laureates, whether they are in … literature or chemistry, nobody cares about their personality,” he insisted.
“It is not the personality that decides if someone wins the award, but what the person has actually achieved to make peace in the world,” he said.
The Nobel Institute, which generally declines to comment on the nominations, was not available for comment.
In the past, several of the five members of the Nobel committee selecting the award have made negative comments about Trump.
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