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Ocelot II

(129,365 posts)
1. Exactly right. By accepting a sloppy-seconds "Peace Prize" he's tacitly acknowledging
Sun Jan 18, 2026, 04:21 PM
18 hrs ago

that it wasn't actually awarded to him; that the NPP committee didn't think he was worthy of it so he had to get a symbol of it second-hand from the person it did consider worthy. He's been reminded that the NPP itself isn't transferrable, but as someone who seems incapable of abstract thinking, he can delude himself into thinking that possessing the medal ("My Preciousss!" ) actually means he won something (and he also has the same physical object that Obama got for real, which has to be a big deal for him).

xuplate

(165 posts)
2. He can always invade Norway
Sun Jan 18, 2026, 04:39 PM
17 hrs ago

Then he can use brute force to hand pick the committee. To a guy like Trump the triumph results in being able to force people to bend to his will—the ethics are for suckers like us.

MadameButterfly

(3,794 posts)
4. Or he could create his own committee and his own award. Already isn't he creating a Peace Board
Sun Jan 18, 2026, 05:00 PM
17 hrs ago

that he is chair of? And he thinks people will pay billions for permanent seats.
Remember, this is a guy who had someone else take his college boards.

Warpy

(114,437 posts)
3. I said a long time ago that the Nobel Committee should strike
Sun Jan 18, 2026, 04:52 PM
17 hrs ago

a "partipiation medal" for him, pot metal very thinly plated with gold or maybe even made entirely of brass, sending a message that most of the world would clearly read but which he is far too stupid to get, like the fact tha Machado is the Peace Prize Laureate and always will be, while he just possesses a chunk of metal on a ribbon.

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