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He's the kind of person that participation trophies were created for.
Cough FIFA peace prize
That thing is an insult to participation trophies
This is gonna be like how Putin stole a Superbowl ring isn't it?
It reminds me of when, in his first term, a wheelchair bound veteran gave Trump his Purple Heart, and Trump's response, if I remember correctly, was, "I've always wanted one of these."
Trump couldn't even pretend to care about the veteran and just made it about himself.
He also stole a football (soccer) trophy last year. And then put himself in the winners circle and then stole one of their medals. He is the definition of stolen valor.
There is a fundamental psychological difference between Trump and me. I can't imagine getting any joy out of a trophy I did nothing to earn
Putin, at least, I can kind of understand. It was a power play. He did it to prove he could rob someone of their most prized possession in front of their face, with zero consequences
What's wild is every diatribe I've ever heard about participation trophies has been from a Maga voter.
Lmao, I did that in high school. My grade was called to the podium to receive a medal and I stand up with all the guys that actually played sports. When the PE teacher were giving the medals he said to me that I better join the team next year.
Remembering back to Trump 1.0, he visited a wounded soldier in the hospital, and admired his Purple Heart, and the MAGA-struck moron (maybe he was medicated) offered it to Trump, who actually took it, saying "I've always wanted one of these."
If you wanted one, go get yourself a traumatic brain injury in a war zone. It would probably improve his cognitive abilities.
😂. Oh wait, this isn’t The Onion?!?
Didn't you know that Nobel prizes were bearer tokens?
I mugged Syukuro Manabe the other day and found the a Nobel Prize for physics in his wallet. I'm super smart now.
I would be honored if Michael Phelps gave me all his gold medals from Beijing. Then I'd be the best swimmer of all time.
How could she transfer the Nobel prize? Sure, prize winners get a medal, a diploma, and monetary award, but what's really important is the recognition and the honor of being a Nobel laureate. A lot of them give the prize money to charity, and...
...oh lord, it's the gold medal. [REDACTED] is such a toddler that he's captivated by shiny, gold baubles.
[REDACTED] is such a toddler that he's captivated by shiny, gold baubles.
Hey what the fuck man?
Spit out our coffee hahaha 😂
He's a malignant narcissist. He's literally crazy. It wouldn't surprise me if all of the actions he's taken against Venezuela since the Prize was announced comes down to this attempt to literally start a war to steal it and then scream "Nah nah nah! I'm as good as Obamna! No! Better! The best!"
I mean, Trump stole the soccer Club World Cup trophy and put it in the Oval office, leaving the actual champions with a replica.
He doesn't give a shit about the accomplishment, only about the prize.
"Oil industry's chosen candidate happy to swap worthless bauble for entire country"
The obvious play here is for Machado to give Trump a blatantly fake knockoff of her Nobel Prize. If Trump doesn't immediately realize it he will be unable to admit he got duped later and double down on his prize being real.
But Trump is a gold medalist in mental gymnastics. He would have no problem spinning it in a way his base would eat up.
The Nobel committee announce that the "Peace Prize" cannot be transferred or shared.
The idea of transferring a Nobel prize makes no logical sense. It's like transferring an academy award. You can give away your trophy but you're still the one the academy officially gave an award to in recognition of your achievements. You can't give away the prestige. You can't give away the record that you were awarded the prize.
You're missing the punchline that it's the PEACE prize, and Trump wants to acquire it through force.
tbh the world noble peace price is a joke since obama got it for anouncing stuff, not even following through.
and this shitshow is doubling down on it
a fake price for a fake man
it should have never been near 'murica so it doesn't even matter when trump gets one too
I agree with your sentiment, but its been a much more significant joke since way before then:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Nobel_Peace_Prize
(Henry Kissinger)
Using a nations military to declare a war in order to physically steal a nobel prize is really something.
To be fair, the actual recipient used the Nobel peace prize speech to call for the war.
To be clear, this opposition leader applauded the US's murder of Venezuelan boats and has been promising to privatize Venezuela's resources and public sector.
So that's what's truly behind the invasion. Oil is just a cover. He just wants that Nobel price.
Honestly, seeing how crooked, petty and deranged he is, I wouldn't be surprised anymore if this would actually be true.
Trump is so pathetic, why is MAGA attracted to him?
Believe it or not, they're more pathetic
Ivan Gorchev, sailor on the freight ship ‘Rangoon’, was not yet twenty-one when he won the Nobel Prize in physics. To win a scientific award at such a romantically young age is unprecedented, though some people might consider the means by which it was achieved a flaw. For Ivan Gorchev won the Nobel Prize in physics in a card game, called macao, from a Professor Bertinus, on whom the honour had been bestowed in Stockholm by the King of Sweden a few days earlier. But those who are always finding fault don’t like to face facts, and the fact of the matter is that Ivan Gorchev did win the Nobel Prize at the age of twenty-one.
Opening lines from the novel “The Fourteen-Carat Roadster” by Jenő Rejtő (P. Howard)
Read up on Machado. She's a real capitalist enabling cunt. She probably had a role to play in all that's happening.
What a degenerate.
Whelp Nobel Peace Committee what do you have to say about giving the award to a boot licker
Henry fucking Kissinger was awarded an Nobel. Obama too, despite having just acceded to the presidency and done nothing yet (he would go on and become one of the most prolific drone striker ever). The "peace" Nobel prize is now and always has been a bad taste joke.
Did he make a bet with someone that he could get a peace prize?
I think he just hates that Obama has one
Yeah kinda. Obama got one and he feels immaculated by that.
Edit: emasculated not immaculated lol
I hope she assassinates him by poisoning the peace prize
She's pretty pro-trump, she probably will give it to him; it seems like an incredibly obvious bribe.
Well, good thing it doesn't matter who or what possesses the prizes. Otherwise, I guess some museum somewhere has Nobels too. (And the British Museum owns Egypt, on account of them having some pharaoh's jewels or something.)