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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMaría Corina Machado is DISGUSTING. This dishonors the Nobel Prize and spits in the Committee's face.
And yes. I do know that she "gave" him the physical MEDAL, and that the Committee has said in no uncertain terms that she can't transfer the HONOR itself. I assume that in his next TV interview, it will be on the Oval Office desk, placed to make sure it's in the camera shot.
https://www.rawstory.com/maria-corina-machado-trump-nobel-prize/
JBTaurus83
(898 posts)The committee doesnt always have the best taste.
RockRaven
(18,770 posts)An enemy of a monster is sometimes also a monster, just a different type.
Aviation Pro
(15,278 posts)I dont know if theres a process to rescind the honor but if there is the Nobel committee can do itself a solid and do it.
sir pball
(5,255 posts)Pretty sure they'd have stripped good ol' Henry of his, if it were possible.
GusBob
(8,143 posts)Do they spit or .......?
La Coliniere
(1,768 posts)Seems like the Nobel Committee needs better criteria to determine who gets that award if people are to believe its worth the prestige it offers its recipients.
allegorical oracle
(6,223 posts)lit matches, there may not be another Peace Prize awarded for a while.
SuzyandPuffpuff
(416 posts)He didn't earn it and no matter how it's spun. They did not award it to him. It will always be second hand. And he knows it. We know it. And he knows we know. Lol ... Don't get yr panties in a bunch over this. It will always be an indicator of a second banana! Something to be laughed at. Losers all.
kimbutgar
(26,898 posts)And making the one she presented to the orange piggy invalid and demand the return of it to the committee!
TheProle
(3,915 posts)Just more political theatre to keep people's eyes off the real issues.
He's no more a Nobel recipient than someone who buy a Super Bowl ring in a pawn shop is a football champion.
Emrys
(8,942 posts)Trump dodged the draft, by the way.
Donald Trumps version of a Purple Heart ceremony apparently involves honoring himself.
The president, a reputed draft dodger, likened himself to Americas wounded or killed veterans Thursday: It wasnt that easy for me, either, he said.
The ceremony was attended by 100 Purple Heart recipientsthree of whom had given Trump their own medals last year in the aftermath of the Butler, Pennsylvania, assassination attempt.
Last year, after an assassin tried to take my life in Butler, Pennsylvania, Thomas generously mailed me one of his Purple Hearts. Many of the other veterans showed me the same unbelievable gesture of kindness, including three-time Purple Heart recipient John Ford and Gerald Enter Jr., who also came along with us and did us a great, great favor, Trump said.
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Gerald, John, and Thomas, I want to thank you very much. What a great honor to get those Purple Hearts, the president continued. I guess in a certain way, it wasnt that easy for me, either, when you think of it. But you went through a lot more than I did, and I appreciate it all very much.
https://newrepublic.com/post/198927/trump-purple-heart-recipients-life-wasnt-easy-either
Stripped of significance and any trace of honour, these are mere trinkets on a par with the cheap gilded crap with which he festoons every free vertical surface in the White House.
KS Toronado
(23,131 posts)OR ELSE, this is what I'm gonna do to you and Venezuela, is not how a person wins it.
I'll bet he threaten her !
rampartd
(3,921 posts)in the upcoming venezuelan chaos.
are we delivering any aid/assistance to the venezuelans? didn't think so.
Anxy
(83 posts)?
rampartd
(3,921 posts)or until the venezuelans make it too costly to pump.
Doodley
(11,660 posts)dalton99a
(92,331 posts)