Newsmax columnists were upset that the Nobel Peace Prize wasn’t won by Donald Trump and weren’t swayed by lobbying from right-wingers like Newsmax. Michael Dorstewitz grumbled in an Oct. 10 column:
Although a Trump Nobel Pease [sic] Prize appeared certain, the Nobel committee awarded it to Venezuelan opposition activist Maria Corina Machado.
But while Trump appeared to be in the running, a broadcast news network tried to focus public attention elsewhere, to an earlier administration.
After brokering a historic ceasefire between Israel and Hamas terrorists Wednesday, both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel’s President Isaac Herzog called for President Donald Trump to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
He then whined that ABC reminded people that President Obama won one:
The Heritage Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based conservative think tank, gave ABC News another reminder.
“Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize is arguably the biggest joke in the history of the award,” Heritage said.
“In the committee’s own words, they selected the 44th president for his ‘efforts,’ ‘vision,’ and ‘appeal’ for peace, not for actually achieving any kind of peace.”
Heritage concluded, “If they have any sense, they would try to redeem themselves by awarding the 45th and 47th president the Nobel Peace Prize for the numerous wars and international conflicts he has helped negotiate ends to.”
Dorstewitz offered no reason why a right-wing organization’s whining that a non-right-winger won the prize should be trusted.
Craig Shirley was in suck-up hagiography mode in his Oct. 16 column:
Trump’s record of success is dizzying (the border, inflation, the economy and now . . . Mideast peace).
I won’t list it all here, except to dwell on the Abraham Accords and the new Mideast peace agreement. Who would have thought 20 years ago that there would be Arab embassies in Israel?
This is a monumental achievement deserving of a Nobel Peace Prize alone, just as General Douglas MacArthur’s administration of the rebuilding of Japan post World War II was also deserving of a Nobel Prize.
President Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot as did John Paul II.
Was it because they were conservatives?
The Nobel Committee preferred to give its prize to a president, nearly two decades ago, based on racial preferences, as opposed to whether Barack Obama truly deserved to receive one of the Nobel Committee’s highest recognitions.
His race will always be a factor in calculating his importance to history for liberals, more interested in identity, than it merits.
Seemingly Obama’s only skill was in the study of himself, which is why I call him the nation’s “first Facebook president.”
He never met a first person pronoun he did not like.
[…]The great philosopher Charles Adams postulated, “Do the times make the man, or does the man make the times?”
It was intended to stimulate debate but in the case of Donald Trump, there is no debate.
Trump makes the times he lives in.
Newsmax, meanwhile, had to take comfort in other random people promising to nominate Trump for next year’s prize, as in this stenographic Oct. 28 article by Theodore Bunker:
The White House announced Tuesday that Japan’s newly elected prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, will nominate President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.
A White House official confirmed to The New York Post that during Trump’s trip to Tokyo, where he met with Takaichi and pledged strong alliance ties, the prime minister “told the president she nominated him and presented him with the papers” for next year’s Nobel Peace Prize.
“In such a short period of time the world started to enjoy more peace,” Takaichi said in remarks to reporters on Tuesday.
[…]Newsweek noted that Trump has become a frequent subject of Nobel nomination talk, with leaders from Cambodia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, and Israel among those backing him this year alone.
This was also repeated in a wire article published the previous day.
Newsmax even hyped a possible consolation prize in a Nov. 6 article:
President Donald Trump might become the first recipient of a new FIFA Peace Prize to be presented at the World Cup draw in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 5, according to FIFA President Gianni Infantino.
FIFA announced the award Wednesday, saying it will honor “exceptional actions for peace and unity” amid global tensions.
[…]Trump, previously nominated multiple times for the Nobel Peace Prize, lost this year’s award to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.
Look for Newsmax to continue to be bitter about this until he actually wins a Nobel Peace Prize — and a manufactured soccer prize will not placate them.