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RockaFowler

(7,429 posts) Thu Jun 21, 2018, 06:54 AM Jun 2018

About that Nobel Peace Prize . . .

Link to tweet

Donald Trump is "no longer the moral leader of his country or the world", according to a key member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee which annually awards the Nobel Peace Prize

https://au.news.yahoo.com/trump-no-longer-moral-leader-free-world-top-142035527--spt.html

"What is happening at the (US-Mexico) border where he (Trump) is separating children from their parents is a sign that he is no longer the moral leader of his country or the world," the Council of Europe's secretary general, Thorbjorn Jagland, told Norwegian broadcaster TV2.

"Everything he does excludes him from the role American presidents have always had," Jagland said during a trip to Moscow.

"He can not speak on behalf of the so-called free world."

The Council of Europe is a Strasbourg-based international human rights organisation with 47 signatory states.

Jagland is also one of the five members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee which annually awards the Nobel Peace Prize.

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About that Nobel Peace Prize . . . (Original Post) RockaFowler Jun 2018 OP

Good to hear this. n/t secondwind Jun 2018 #1

When the award is given to someone else, madaboutharry Jun 2018 #2

I wasn't aware that he had ever been considered a moral leader of anyone at any time. Arkansas Granny Jun 2018 #3

No, but a couple of misguided Norwegians nominated him for one because of Kim. pazzyanne Jun 2018 #7

"Sorry, but kidnapping is a big no no". oasis Jun 2018 #4

Womp Womp! gibraltar72 Jun 2018 #5

DUzy! blake2012 Jun 2018 #6

+1 Arkansas Granny Jun 2018 #8

secondwind

(16,903 posts)

1. Good to hear this. n/t

Reply to RockaFowler (Original post)

Thu Jun 21, 2018, 06:58 AM

Jun 2018

madaboutharry

(40,218 posts)

2. When the award is given to someone else,

Reply to RockaFowler (Original post)

Thu Jun 21, 2018, 07:07 AM

Jun 2018

Trump will fume and lash out. He'll tweet something about how people who get The Nobel Peace Prize are really weak losers and that it is a sign of strength to be rejected.

Then he will go on to tweet something about how Norwegians aren't all that great after all and that all they ever gave the world was Vikings, knit sweaters, and and the "wussy" habits of Hygge.