Apparently, the
thing that Trump covets more than anything else (other than more money, of
course) is a Nobel Peace Prize. Whether he really cares whether he gets one or
not, or is just miffed that Obama got one and the USA’s ‘favourite ever’ (according
to him) president didn’t, is not exactly an irrelevant question. And there are
plenty of sycophants willing to nominate him – some of them having already nominated him at
least once previously.
It’s true, of
course, that he didn’t actually start any wars during his first term, which is
probably a good starting point. I can’t help wondering, however, what sort of
committee deliberating whether to give him one or not wouldn’t hesitate before
giving the prize to someone who has threatened the use of force to take Greenland
and the Panama
canal, is openly threatening to use economic power to force Canada into joining
the US, is bullying
neighbouring countries into “…[agreeing] to all of President Trump’s
terms” by the use of tariffs, and wants to organise a thorough ethnic cleansing of
Palestinians by transporting them to Egypt, Jordan, or, bizarrely, Indonesia.
Committee members would surely be more than a little hesitant out of a fear
that it just might come to look like a mistake with the benefit of hindsight.
It may be, as many of those who support Trump argue, that this is all bluster
and we should wait and judge him by his actions, rather than by his words.
Maybe, maybe not: but wait and see might be a sound piece of advice for the Nobel
Prize Committee as well.
Trump’s best chance
of getting an early Peace Prize would be to sack the members
of the committee and demand that the Norwegian Parliament replace them with
his own nominees. Some might argue that he doesn’t have the power to do that –
but he doesn’t have the power to sack all the US
Government’s Inspectors General either, and that hasn’t stopped him from
doing so. There’s no obvious reason why a man prepared to bully Denmark,
Colombia and Canada wouldn’t be prepared to do the same to Norway.
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