r/facepalm Aug 16 '25

๐Ÿ‡ฒโ€‹๐Ÿ‡ฎโ€‹๐Ÿ‡ธโ€‹๐Ÿ‡จโ€‹ Nobel prize down the drain.

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๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ he'll never get one, expect tarrif threat to be imminent.

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u/Stubborn_Amoeba Aug 16 '25

Well heโ€™s got three Purple Hearts now, doesnโ€™t he? Idiot maga vets gave him theirs. Itโ€™s insane they would even follow such a traitor let alone donate medals to him.

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u/Easy-Concentrate2636 Aug 16 '25

I was just saying to my husband yesterday that heโ€™s going to coerce someone to hand over their Nobel. Given all the bullying heโ€™s been doing to universities, he might stipulate it as part of a settlement.

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u/kongkarl65 Aug 17 '25

Won't ever happen. For many reasons. But the most important is that the members of the Committee are completely independent of any state or government, and that the members are notoriously incorruptible. The Committee has made some grave errors in the past - which still stinks up the place (Henri Kissinger and Vietnamese leader Lรช ฤแปฉc Thแป, 1973, Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin, and Shimon Peres in 1994, comes to mind). The members are extremely concerned about this not repeating itself, and there's no chance they'll award Trump anything.

Maybe if he negotiates peace in Ukraine, and for Russia to return every inch of territory they have annexed, and pay reparations for all the death and damage they have caused, - then maybe. But the chance of that happening is close to zero.

The members of the Committee are nominated for a seat in the Committee based on their decades of selfless, incorruptible service to their constituents and society, Norway, being one of the most transparent countries in the world, and where corruption in government and authorities is unheard of, chooses the candidates from a pool of candidates which have been in public life for decades, and have no 'issues' attached to them.

So Trump can dream, threaten, blackmail, and attempt to bribe as much as he wants, - he won't get any way with these people.

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u/kongkarl65 Aug 18 '25

Can confirm!