GOP Lawmakers: Trump Still Deserves the Nobel Even After Summit Collapse

[DonViejo]

President Trump’s North Korean summit seemingly fell apart almost as fast as it fell in place, but there are still people in his corner for the Peace Prize.

JULIA ARCIGA
05.25.18 7:27 PM ET

President Donald Trump may have pulled out of the North Korean nuclear summit. But several lawmakers still either want to award him the Nobel Peace Prize for his overtures to Kim Jong Un or believe that the recognition will come in time.

“Considering Barack Obama received the prize for simply having a pulse and then recklessly destabilizing the globe, it’s hard to imagine how anyone could keep a straight face while questioning if Trump deserves one,” Kelsey Knight, a spokesman for Rep. Jim Renacci, an Ohio Republican running for the Senate, said in a statement. “[Trump] has freed our hostages while North Korea destroyed their nuclear test site ahead of his visit. ISIS is collapsing and we’re closer to ending the Korean War than we’ve been since the 1950’s.”

Critics have insisted that the argument that Trump deserves a Nobel for his attempts to broker a nuclear deal with Kim always rested more on an appreciation for Trump than an appreciation for the prize. Renacci’s commitment awarding the president even without the high-profile summit, seems likely to give those critics additional fodder.

The idea that Trump deserves a Nobel first originated when the possibility of that summit seemed strong. In the letter sent on May 2 to the Nobel Committee (PDF), a group of House Republicans lauded the president for bringing North and South Korea together in an effort to end “the Korean War [and to] seek to reunify their countries[.]” Trump was also credited in starting “the process to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula” with “peace through strength policies” that brought North Korea “to the negotiating table.”

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[spanone]

1. fuck these folks...'"Considering Barack Obama received the prize for simply having a pulse'

[jpak]

2. Don't they have anything better to do?

Sheesh

[Americanno]

3. Let's not set the bar low. Meeting Kim Jong Un doesn't earn him a Nobel Peace Prize

Making him destroy his nuclear weapons might, and that's if we ignore Trump's support of violence elsewhere.

[lunasun]

4. Ok then give Obama credit for all these people released ny NK. They act as if he failed in NK

Government officials confirmed the following US Citizens were released by North Korea under the Obama Administration: Laura Ling, Euna Lee, Aijalon Gomes, Eddie Yong Su Jun, Jeffrey Fowley, Kenneth Bae, Matthew Miller, Sandra Suh, Merrill Newman, Robert Park.

[smirkymonkey]

5. He did jack shit!

He called Kim a few names, insulted him and threatened to blow up his country. I'm sorry, but how does that qualify one for a Nobel Peace Prize? Whatever is going on between NK/SK now has nothing to do with him.

[bluestarone]

6. They would say ANYTHING

for there self made God!! RUMPY GOLDEN CALF!!!!!!!!!

[notdarkyet]

7. Has he made Iran safer? What about Mexican people entering our country. What about our

Bombing that killed dozens in Syria? Can you declare peace by selling weapons all over the world. He is using the motto war is peace, from 1984, which was Orwell’s mottos for the party. Ignorance is strength, war is peace, freedom is slavery. These were ways to recognize the totalitarian government. Seems like this administration has us right on track.

[argyl]

8. Fortunately, being a GOP lawmaker doesn't give you a Nobel Peace Prize vote.