LIke Newsmax and WorldNetDaily, the Media Research Center pushed the idea of President Trump winning a Nobel Peace Prize and mocked anyone who disagreed (and President Obama). Mark Finkelstein huffed in a May 12 post:
As tough as it was for the liberal media to swallow Trump’s 2016 and 2024 presidential election wins, imagine their absolute horror if Trump were to win the Nobel Peace Prize! And yet . . .
On today’s Morning Joe, MSNBC commentator and Washington Post editor David Ignatius, noting the “amazing agenda” of Trump’s peace efforts around the world, said there was “something to” the notion of Trump winning the Peace Prize.
Ignatius noted that Trump has “the ambition to be a peacemaker. He has this big ambition that the United States will play a decisive role” [in forging peace around the world.] […]
If Trump were to win the Nobel Peace Prize, it would be for actually achieving peaceful outcomes around the world. That would be in stark contrast to the Nobel committee’s premature awarding of the Prize to Barack Obama in 2009. Obama failed to live up to the award, notably doing nothing when Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad crossed Obama’s declared “red line” on the use of chemical weapons on Syrian civilians. Similarly, Obama didn’t lift a finger when Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimea region in 2014.
Finkelstein returned to complain in a June 27 post:
It’s only funny because Trump haters on the Nobel Committee might make that unlikely…
Today’s CNN This Morning panel burst into laughter when MRC alum and Daily Signal president Rob Bluey said that, based on his accomplishments in the Middle East, there’s“talk again about giving Donald Trump the Nobel Peace Prize.”
Shades of Bill Maher’s audience bursting into laughter in 2015 when Ann Coulter said Trump was the Republican most likely to win the 2016 election. [The linked video, to quote the late, great, Noel Sheppard, is particularly “delicious” because Coulter’s statement is followed by a clip of Obama saying that while Trump has called him the worst president in history, at least he will go down in history as a president. Braggart Barack actually does a mic (phone) drop.]
Granted, Trump was able to accomplish what he has thanks to Israel having virtually eliminated Hezbollah, greatly weakened Hamas, and destroyed Iran’s air defenses.
So, what say a joint Nobel for Trump and Bibi Netanyahu? That would make liberal heads explode louder than a bunker buster!
When Trump failed to win the prize, the MRC really didn’t like it. Tim Graham complained in an Oct. 6 post:
The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by Norwegian socialists, so President Trump’s forever a long shot. AP reporter Mark Lewis penned a dismissive article headlined “Why experts say Trump is unlikely to win the Nobel Peace Prize this year.”
What would we do without experts? “Longtime Nobel watchers say Trump’s prospects remain remote despite a flurry of high-profile nominations and some notable foreign policy interventions for which he has taken personal credit.”
[…]The Nobel committee gave a prize to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, but not to Ronald Reagan. Republicans haven’t been honored since Henry Kissinger in 1973. Al Gore and Jimmy Carter won the prize.
Lewis noted the Nobel committee faced “fierce criticism” (from conservatives) when they gave the Peace Prize to President Obama in 2009 in his first months in office. But they can still dismiss Trump’s work in negotiating peace.
Graham didn’t explain which right-wing Nobel experts he preferred.
Alex Christy was in comedy-cop mode in an Oct. 14 post:
CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! are the only two late night comedy shows with original episodes this week. As such, both men were the only ones able to give their thoughts on the recent ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. While both hosts acknowledged their eternal nemesis, President Donald Trump, should get credit for the deal, they ridiculed any idea of him winning a Nobel Peace Prize for it given his domestic agenda.
[…]Moving on to the Peace Prize, Colbert added, “Despite the deal, on Friday, in a truly foreseeable turn of events, Trump did not receive the Nobel Peace Prize.”
A sarcastic Colbert followed up, “How dare you, Nobel Committee? The man is a paragon of peace. He walks in the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. After all, who can forget that Nelson Mandela famously declared upon leaving prison: ‘Fat, talentless Rosie O’Donnell should go back to Ireland.’”
[…]Later, Kimmel repeated the evidence-free claim that, “I mentioned last week the Norwegian government. They have one, by the way, the Norwegian government. They were worried about Trump retaliating against them if he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize. And the woman who did win, Maria Corina Machado, was maybe a little nervous about it too, because she felt the need to call him about it.”
Joseph Vazquez spent an Oct. 16 post being mad that someone he didn’t like won a different Nobel prize in an Oct. 16 post:
The Associated Press recently dug up some “experts” to diss President Donald Trump as being too nasty for the Nobel Peace Prize, since he — gasp — “does not believe in climate change.” But one of the recipients of the elitist honors in the Nobel Economics Prize is is a climate-obsessed economist who advocates a distorted concept of “creative destruction” through green policies to wreck the fossil fuel industry.
Climate organization Heatmap reported October 13 that Nobel winner Philippe Aghion views “carbon taxes” as just one instrument in a tool box to force the economy into a climate-friendlier era.
[…]But nobody should be surprised. After all, the Nobel Committee once gave a prize to former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev as the Cold War ended, but not to President Ronald Reagan. In fact, as NewsBusters executive editor Tim Graham pointed out, “Republicans haven’t been honored since Henry Kissinger in 1973.” This is also the same Committee that gave then-President Barack Obama a prize in 2009 for doing — well, nothing really. Do lefty outlets like AP care? Of course not.
Vazquez made no effort to disprove Aghion’s claims. Instead, he huffed: “Apparently the Nobel is just primarily earmarked for snobby academics and leaders who despise fossil fuels. Good grief.”
When actual Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machad regifted her prize to Trump, Jorge Bonilla managed to complain about coverage of that in a Feb. 1 post:
Margaret Brennan’s interview with Venezuelan leader María Corina Machado on Face the Nationended with a familiar point of grievance that the Elitist Media have a hard time letting go of: her giving the Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Donald Trump during her recent White House visit.
[…]The entire interview transpired in this manner, with Brennan trying to drive little wedges between Machado and Trump, and nitpick every aspect of the ongoing transition in Venezuela. In one exchange, Brennan tried to goad Machado into reacting to Trump’s initial assessment of Machado not having access to institutional control, recasting it as a personal slight. Machado refused to take the bait.
Bonilla spent the rest of his post whining that “American media treated Latin America as a backwater- never to be covered unless there was a migrant caravan on the way or some weird virus broke out.” He never explained how his preferred right-wing media is any diferent.