Donald Trump nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

[octoberlib]

The US president's name has been put forward by Norwegian politician Christian Tybring-Gjedde, according to Fox News.

"For his merit, I think he has done more trying to create peace between nations than most other Peace Prize nominees," Mr Tybring-Gjedde, a four-term member of parliament, told the channel.

On Tuesday, a White House official announced Mr Trump will hold a signing ceremony on 15 September for a groundbreaking Middle East agreement normalising relations between Israel and the UAE.

As part of the deal, announced at the White House on 13 August following what officials said were 18 months of talks, the Gulf state agreed to normal relations with Israel, while Israel agreed to continue with plans to suspend its annexation of the West Bank. In 2020, there were 318 candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize.

https://news.sky.com/story/donald-trump-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize-12067203


Oh, give me a fucking break. Tybring-Gjedde is an anti-immigrant conservative. He's compared the hijab to Ku Klux Klan and Nazi outfits.

[JHB]

1. Gosh, color me surprised about Tybring-Gjedde...

He's an MP for the Fremskrittspartiet (The Progress Party), the right-wing party that mass-murderer Anders Breivik was a youth-leader in.

[octoberlib]

4. Completely forgot about this. Thanks for the info! The European parties can be confusing.

[Fullduplexxx]

2. Sounds the dotard made a phone call

[octoberlib]

6. My first thought, as well. I'm in the middle of reading Cohen's book and

this is how Trump does things.

[JustGene]

3. It's fine if posthumous

[sandensea]

5. Nobel PISS Prize

would be more like it.

[North Shore Chicago]

7. Barf!

[handmade34]

8. ...

[dwayneb]

9. Christian Tybring-Gjedde

A lot of people had not heard of this guy that nominated Trump.

Christian Tybring-Gjedde is effectively a far right wing isolationist.

He is associated with the Progress Party. This is the same group that produced the whacko Breivik that shot 69 participants at a Worker's Youth League camp in Norway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_Party_(Norway)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Behring_Breivik

[JesterCS]

10. He'll never win it. Unless he cheats that is.... N/t

[Lucinda]

11. Check his bank account... n/t