Donald Trump’s work negotiating the ceasefire in Gaza, helping to end the conflicts between Cambodia and Thailand, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and Congo and Rwanda, as well as preventing a conflict between Pakistan and India on one hand and Venezuela and Guyana on the other hand should have guaranteed that he be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. There was no rational reason for the Nobel Committee to rule otherwise.
Who else this year has done anything for peace?
After all, 70,000 Buddhist monks thanked Trump for ending the conflict and supported his nomination for the peace prize. (You can’t argue with 70,000 Buddhist monks).
So Donald Trump’s receiving the award was greatly anticipated.
Passing over an obviously outstanding — and successful — peacemaker in favor of Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado may have been a shock to many, but it’s really not unexpected for those of us who have examined the Nobel choices over the past few decades.
As such, the reputation of the Nobel Peace Prize has hit rock bottom — again.
The Nobel Prize for Literature also hit rock bottom decades ago when the prizes were given to literary mediocrities such as Dario Fo simply because they were Marxists as a way to rehabilitate Marxism. There was such an outcry over this obvious pattern that the committee changed members and awarded the prize to anti-communist Mario Vargas Llosa in 2010. This choice shocked leftists because they expected the trend of leftist favoritism to continue. A petition even went around demanding that the accolade be canceled.
In the scientific fields (chemistry, physiology, physics, and economics) the awards have, with one or two exceptions, gone to scientists who merited the honor; the only criticism is that some unquestionably deserving scientists have been overlooked, partly due to the arbitrary cutoff of three recipients for each year in each category, which is totally unrealistic in today’s scientific environment.
As for the peace prize, for over half a century, it has been given to what can charitably be referred to as … social workers. Almost all of the recipients really did nothing whatsoever to end wars or facilitate peace — which is against the terms of the original will of Alfred Nobel. Malala Yousafzai, Elie Wiesel, Mother Theresa, Dalai Lama, Wangarĩ Maathai, and Albert Schweitzer may all be very nice people. But peacemakers? Not at all. As for Barack Obama, he was given the Nobel Peace Prize for simply pledging to support the liberal international agenda.
Regardless, the one amusing result of anyone being awarded the peace prize is that the recipient is bestowed with instant sainthood.
So why was Trump passed over? Simply put, it is because the elites despise him. Western European elites are engaging in censorship, encouraging the illegal immigration of criminals, and hurting their own citizens with their economic policies, and Donald Trump personifies the opposite values. He is also an inspiration to the people who are trying to throw off the elitists’ yoke.
It is that simple.
If Trump had been awarded the accolade, it would have made American liberals’ heads explode, and that alone would have been a sight to see.