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The Trump Peace Prize nomination sparked controversy. US Media: Why were you nominated for a lie?
[Corresponsal especial del Global Times, Li Yong Qingmu Wei Hui Liu Yupeng]Trump, whom many Americans have called a “21st century joke,” was increasingly nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Last weekend, a Swedish congressman announced Trump’s nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize on the grounds of mediating the agreement reached between Serbia and Kosovo. Earlier, Trump had just been nominated by a Norwegian MP. Trump was very excited to receive “two consecutive mentions” in one week, and he and his team continued to use this as a “contribution” to show off in the campaign. Many US media and netizens were “stunned” by this surreal satire: Trump held up the “America First” flag externally, continued to withdraw from the group, and broke international agreements, incited differences internally and exacerbated them. Politics and race are opposed. In particular, the lack of response to the new corona pneumonia epidemic has caused the death toll in the United States to approach 200,000. The British newspaper The Independent declared on the 12th: “Trump’s nomination is a mockery of the Nobel Peace Prize.” In fact, the Nobel Peace Prize has long been controversial, and Hitler, Mussolini, and other Nazi leaders have won. Nominated. Especially in recent years, the award has faced increasing doubts due to its political leanings. Hong Kong’s “Oriental Daily” stated: “The peace prize winners should have more blood on their hands than we do. Knowing this, it is not surprising that Trump was nominated or even won.”Trump’s team starts 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 nominated the Trump administration and the governments of Kosovo and Serbia to compete for the Nobel Peace Prize. Jacobson said 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, right-wing Norwegian MP 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 United Arab Emirates. “Trump got another Nobel Prize nomination … It’s very obvious that he deserves the Nobel Prize,” Laura Ingraham, a Trump-supporting Fox News host, said on the show.
Trump himself is very excited about this. Last week, half an hour after learning that Tabrin Gide nominated him, he posted 17 tweets in a row. The British “Guardian” claimed that Trump “bragged” to his supporters when he spoke at a rally in Freeland, Michigan, that he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The New York Times declared on the 12th that Trump has never hidden 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 night of the 11th, the US ambassador to Iceland, Gunter, praised Trump on Twitter and said that no one is more qualified to win the award. Trump quickly retweeted this tweet.
Trump’s campaign team also quickly released the “Nobel Medal,” but he made a joke. The Russian satellite network reported that Trump’s two Nobel Peace Prize nominations were stolen by his campaign team’s paid ads on Facebook. When many American 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 advertising slogan “President Trump was nominated for the Nobel Prize. peace”. The word Nobel is misspelled as “Noble” (Noble).
Controversy exists in the fields of American and international public opinion. The New York Times said on the 12th that Trump was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize twice in a week and that each nomination came from a right-wing Scandinavian politician. This nomination was ridiculed and ridiculed around the world. Repel. The website of the US news blog Mashable stated that after Trump was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, there were emojis and fake jokes on the internet. America 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 the new crown in the United States ranked first in the world. He failed to solve the problem of racism in his country. Recently, protests of “blacks are fate too” have taken place across the country, and they 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 declared on the 12th that Trump is not eligible to be nominated, not only because of his incendiary tirades and nuclear weapons on Twitter. The threat of war, failed to cope with the continuing systemic inequality, and basically refused to deal with the climate crisis, resulting in a large number of deaths from the new corona 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, he abandoned the gun control agreements of long standing and he took advantage of everything. Opportunities to undermine multilateralism. His few diplomatic initiatives, like 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 profound.” 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 Singapore summit between the United States and North Korea in 2018, 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 declared that Trump’s nomination for the Peace Prize was forged.” However, the news actually came from an old New York Times report in February 2018. At the time, the Nobel Prize Committee stated that they found a forged Trump Peace Prize nomination letter, and it appeared a second time.
According to some analyzes, Trump’s chances of victory this time around are still slim, but that he is nominated already may cause quite a stir, especially at the critical moment of the elections. 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 asking 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 United Arab Emirates, White House spokesman McNerney called it “a well-deserved and hard-earned honor for the president.”
US Newsweek said on the 12th that former Serbian Foreign Minister Jeremić, who served as president of the 67th session of the UN General Assembly, declared that Trump’s nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize “should not be seen outside the context of the US presidential campaign. ” The texts of the agreements signed by Serbia and Kosovo under Trump’s supervision are reportedly not consistent. Jeremiah said the signing of two non-binding agreements at the White House is neither historic nor sustainable. “This is just a one-time opportunity to take a photo of President Trump.”
RIA Novosti quoted Russian State Duma Congressman Morozov on the 12th as saying: “If Nobel knew that that person would receive the Peace Prize on his behalf, he would turn around in the coffin in anger. Because we saw America and its leaders. It is doing everything possible 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 eligible to nominate for the Nobel Peace Prize are vast. 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, that politicians and heads of state can also nominate, and that members of the International Court of Justice and the Permanent Court of Arbitration. In addition, university professors, honorary professors, and associate professors in history, society, law, and other careers may also be nominated. “Was Trump nominated for the Nobel Prize? Why is it a lie? ” The Los Angeles Times wrote a letter to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee with the Nobel Peace Prize as its title, in an ironic tone, frankly considering their lies. I’m surprised Trump wasn’t nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
American media: the peace prize should be abolished
Unlike the Nobel Prize in Natural Sciences, 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 at the time.
In recent years, the Nobel Peace Prize has been more questioned due to politicization. Euronews said on the 9th that observers often accuse the Nobel Committee of selecting winners for political reasons. The Turkish news website TRTWorld stated that the Nobel Prize Committee has been criticized because it often praises those who instigate war rather than truly promote peace. In 2009, the President of the United States, Obama, received the Peace Prize only nine 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?” You can see that even in the West, it is very controversial. Earlier this year, several members of the anti-China US Congress also jointly named their so-called “Hong Kong Democracy Movement” to compete for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize. In this regard, the South China Morning Post Hong Kong protesters questioned on the 12th that if Hong Kong protesters deserve the peace award, shouldn’t the American “life and fate of blacks” protesters deserve the award even more? The article ironically said, however, that this requires real courage, because this will be a slap in the face to Trump, who condemned the American protesters as “thugs,” “terrorists,” and “losers.”
“Ending the Nobel Peace Prize,” said the Atlantic Monthly on the 11th that the Nobel Committee had failed to award the Peace Prize 19 times, most recently in 1972. The committee should resume its tradition of not awarding prizes of peace to no one, and perhaps it should always be so. Historically, the achievements of Peace Prize winners have been uneven and the reasons for winning are varied, so the committee should take some time to consider whether the Peace Prize is a category worthy of recognition. The article said that instead of becoming a bargaining chip for nominees trying to get attention, it would be better to abolish the award.
