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And all she had to do was look straight ahead and say "No" - hasn't working for Trump taught her how to lie convincingly?
The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America
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And all she had to do was look straight ahead and say "No" - hasn't working for Trump taught her how to lie convincingly?
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Checking dates it would appear that the decision to award the Prize to Obama was made after the election but before he took office so I agree that Obama was awarded the prize for being "Not Bush".
by Øyvind Tønnesson / Nobelprize.org Peace Editor, 1998-2000
The Nobel Peace Prize has frequently caused controversy. One reason is that many Laureates have been contemporary and highly controversial political actors, another is that the Prizes in many instances, have increased public focus on international or national conflicts. In the latter case, the awards have often been seen by local authorities as “interference” in national matters.
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One might compose a persuasive argument the Nobel committee shouldn't "abuse" their limited power this way.
A perhaps equally persuasive argument may counter that.
This argument aside, though it would be premature to sing Trump's Middle East peace praises here today, particularly with Trump dispatching military troops to Portland and Chicago, there is room for cautious optimism for the desperate People of War-ravaged Palestine.
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It takes a particular kind of government to gaslight you about a fire while standing in front of the flames with a gasoline can. Today’s White House “ANTIFA roundtable” was a pageant, a reality-TV set piece tuned to the Stephen Miller attention economy, where the goal isn’t governance but spectacle, not law but the performance of “law and order.” The cast list featured the usual chorus of aggrieved influencers and political appointees telling one another they are very brave, very persecuted, and very close to uncovering a sprawling left-wing terror hydra funded by NGOs, homeless-services nonprofits, and, naturally, the media. The villain, “ANTIFA,” was invoked like a magic spell that makes due process disappear and federal troops appear.
“It should be clear to all Americans that we have a very serious left-wing terror threat,” Trump intoned, before musing that “the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be jailed.”
“Everything we are doing is very lawful. What they are doing is not lawful,” he declared, even as he entertained a question about suspending habeas corpus to deal with so-called “insurrectionists.”
Pam Bondi chimed in: “ANTIFA is a domestic left-wing terrorist organization… This is not activism. It’s anarchy.”
And the president nodded along when one participant suggested designating ANTIFA as a foreign .....
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Good morning! María Corina Machado has just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her relentless fight for democracy in Venezuela. Silenced, barred from running, forced into hiding under threat of assassination, she kept organizing, resisting militarization, and pushing for a peaceful transition. She embodies courage and sacrifice in their purest form.
Donald Trump, meanwhile, spent the year lobbying like a petulant child demanding dessert, pestering ministers, boasting at the UN that “everyone says” he deserves it. He got nothing. And that’s the point: Machado won for being everything he isn’t. She risks her life for democracy; he risks democracy itself for applause. She builds coalitions; he burns institutions.
And it is especially fitting that Machado is Venezuelan, because even as she is honored for resisting authoritarianism, Trump is ordering U.S. strikes that literally blow up fishermen off her country’s coast, extrajudicial killings that international observers have already denounced. While she defends life and democratic principle, he treats human beings as ....
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Good morning! María Corina Machado has just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her relentless fight for democracy in Venezuela. Silenced, barred from running, forced into hiding under threat of assassination, she kept organizing, resisting militarization, and pushing for a peaceful transition. She embodies courage and sacrifice in their purest form.
Donald Trump, meanwhile, spent the year lobbying like a petulant child demanding dessert, pestering ministers, boasting at the UN that “everyone says” he deserves it. He got nothing. And that’s the point: Machado won for being everything he isn’t. She risks her life for democracy; he risks democracy itself for applause. She builds coalitions; he burns institutions.
And it is especially fitting that Machado is Venezuelan, because even as she is honored for resisting authoritarianism, Trump is ordering U.S. strikes that literally blow up fishermen off her country’s coast, extrajudicial killings that international observers have already denounced. While she defends life and democratic principle, he treats human beings as ....
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BREAKING: Obama breaks his silence on Trump losing the Nobel Peace Prize to a Colombian woman, and throws MAJOR shade at Trump in the process.
Obama didn’t even have to mention Trump’s name to make his intentions perfectly clear to everyone. All the former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner had to do was simply post a heartfelt congratulations to this year’s Nobel winner, María Corina Machado of Venezuela.
“Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela,” Obama wrote in a post on X. “It should inspire those engaged in similar struggles around the world - and remind those of us lucky enough to live in America that we have a solemn responsibility to constantly preserve and defend our own hard-won democratic traditions.”
With Trump openly — and embarrassingly — campaigning to be awarded the same accolade that his predecessor was given, his anger and disappointment that the prize instead went to someone else — a Latina woman, no less — makes his loss a particularly sore point.
Obama’s reference to defending America’s ”democratic traditions” made it obvious that he considers Trump’s recent attempts to deploy National Guard troops to cities run by Democratic mayors an assault on those traditions.
Being called out, even obliquely, by the Black man who outshines him in intelligence, class, and statesmanship, is the worst psychic injury imaginable for Trump, and it’s a slight that he only brought upon himself with his own overwhelming narcissism.
Like Obama, we congratulate María Corina Machado for her win and laud the Nobel committee that awarded her the prize for their courage in ignoring the political pressure to succumb to Trump’s naked ambition.
Obama didn’t even have to mention Trump’s name to make his intentions perfectly clear to everyone. All the former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner had to do was simply post a heartfelt congratulations to this year’s Nobel winner, María Corina Machado of Venezuela.
“Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela,” Obama wrote in a post on X. “It should inspire those engaged in similar struggles around the world - and remind those of us lucky enough to live in America that we have a solemn responsibility to constantly preserve and defend our own hard-won democratic traditions.”
With Trump openly — and embarrassingly — campaigning to be awarded the same accolade that his predecessor was given, his anger and disappointment that the prize instead went to someone else — a Latina woman, no less — makes his loss a particularly sore point.
Obama’s reference to defending America’s ”democratic traditions” made it obvious that he considers Trump’s recent attempts to deploy National Guard troops to cities run by Democratic mayors an assault on those traditions.
Being called out, even obliquely, by the Black man who outshines him in intelligence, class, and statesmanship, is the worst psychic injury imaginable for Trump, and it’s a slight that he only brought upon himself with his own overwhelming narcissism.
Like Obama, we congratulate María Corina Machado for her win and laud the Nobel committee that awarded her the prize for their courage in ignoring the political pressure to succumb to Trump’s naked ambition.
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Qatar gives Trump a billion-dollar plane and signs a deal with Trump for a $5.5 BILLION Trump golf beach resort in their country... and VOILA! Qatar now gets a literal air force base INSIDE our country. BEYOND CORRUPT! It's ALWAYS Trump first...
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US says Qatar to build air force facility in Idaho
The facility in Idaho will be used to train Qatari pilots to fly F-15 fighter jets, the US defence secretary says.
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Oh?
For whom?
Doesn't the Constitution enumerate ratification authority to the U.S. senate? Perhaps we'll Thune find out.
You mean to insinuate Trump lied? In a political election campaign ?
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Can anyone spell quid pro quo?
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When asked by a reporter for his reaction to Maria Corina Machado winning the Nobel Peace Prize, President Trump said he spoke with her on the phone. Trump said Machado told him she was accepting the award in his honor.
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Venezuelan opposition leader dedicates Nobel Prize to Trump for ‘decisive support’
“I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause,” she wrote in a post on X.
Trump says Nobel Peace Prize winner Machado accepted the award for him
When asked by a reporter for his reaction to Maria Corina Machado winning the Nobel Peace Prize, President Trump said he spoke with her on the phone. Trump said Machado told him she was accepting the award in his honor.
www.nbcnews.com
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Trump says he spoke with Machado after White House criticizes Nobel snub
- White House says Committee chose 'politics over peace'
- Trump says Machado may have given him award if he asked
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Venezuelan opposition leader dedicates Nobel Prize to Trump for ‘decisive support’
“I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause,” she wrote in a post on X.
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Donald Trump humiliated on live TV as CNN host issues devastating blow
CNN Panel Calls Out Donald Trump’s “Absurd” Claims During Chaotic Meeting With Canada’s Prime Minister
A routine Oval Office meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney took an unexpected turn after CNN journalists blasted Trump’s statements live on air describing many of his claims as “absurd” and “detached from reality.”
The meeting, meant to be a simple photo opportunity, turned chaotic when Trump made a series of controversial remarks that quickly caught the attention of CNN’s Inside Politics panel. Guest anchor Manu Raju, along with correspondents Edward-Isaac Dovere and Daniel Dale, dissected Trump’s comments in real time, accusing him of “inventing reality.”
Dovere pointed out one of Trump’s more unusual claims that ICE officers were fighting “hand-to-hand combat” with Antifa in Portland every night. Dovere countered, “We have CNN’s Shimon Prokupecz on the ground in Portland, and that’s simply not happening. The White House is reacting to a version of reality that doesn’t exist.”
Fact-checker Daniel Dale tallied “at least five false claims” during Trump’s remarks including his boast that he secured $17 trillion in new investments for the U.S. “The White House’s own numbers say $8.8 trillion,” Dale clarified, adding that much of that figure came from vague pledges, not real investments.
Trump also declared that shootings had stopped entirely in Washington, D.C., a statement Dale corrected by noting, “Crime is down, but it hasn’t disappeared.”
Another of Trump’s remarks that U.S. military strikes on Venezuelan drug boats saved 100,000 lives was labeled “absurd” by Dale. He explained, “There were under 100,000 overdose deaths in total last year. It’s simply not credible that four or five boat strikes saved that many lives.”
Finally, Dale dismantled Trump’s assertion that the U.S. couldn’t sell agricultural goods to the EU before his trade deal, pointing out that “the EU was already the fourth-largest buyer of U.S. farm products.”
CNN the same network Trump has long accused of spreading “fake news” concluded the segment by saying that his statements were not only inaccurate but “deeply misleading to the public.”
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No. BUT !
When was the next most recent time military forces outside U.S. military command were stationed here? In the 18th Century? During the Revolutionary War ?
It's an honor to host visiting foreigners in official capacity, such as foreign dignitaries at the U.N. - but -
Will these Qatari forces not technically be military occupiers?
That's OK w/ Trump, apparadently.
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Re 1,570 and 1.575 -
I'm absolutely positive that it's just coincidence that Trump was given a $400 million plane and a $5.5 billion real estate deal. NOT!!
I'm absolutely positive that it's just coincidence that Trump was given a $400 million plane and a $5.5 billion real estate deal. NOT!!
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BREAKING: MAGA throws HUMILIATING temper tantrum because Trump didn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize!
Yes, somehow the man who is illegally murdering fishermen en masse and sending masked police officers to drag children screaming from their beds did not win the Nobel Peace Prize. But that hasn’t stopped his sycophantic lapdogs and yes-men from throwing a truly pathetic whine-fest.
In a statement that would have made Kim Jong-un blush, White House comms director Steven Cheung wrote on Twitter that “President Trump will continue making peace deals, ending wars, and saving lives. He has the heart of a humanitarian, and there will never be anyone like him who can move mountains with the sheer force of his will. The Nobel
Committee proved they place politics over peace.” LOL, ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
As if that wasn’t bootlicky enough, Georgia Congressman Buddy Carter proposed passing a law…to force Norway to give Trump the Prize? “He deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, and that's why I'm introducing a resolution for a sense of Congress today that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize. And if need be, we'll call for a discharge petition on that,” said Carter on Fox News. Not how it works, dumb dumb!
Megyn Kelly took the approach of “well, we actually didn’t want it anyway,” writing on Twitter that “at Fox, Roger Ailes never even allowed anyone to submit for an award bc he understood how meaningless they were - a leftist celebration of leftist behavior. Trump deserves the Peace Prize, but the loser here is the Nobel Committee which has further sullied its once-stellar brand.” COPE HARDER, LOSER!
“Imagine thinking a woman who cries nonstop about Nicolas Maduro has done more for the world than President Trump,” whined right-wing influencer and alleged Trump mistress Laura Loomer.
Yeah, imagine thinking Donald Trump has done anything good for anyone in his entire misbegotten life. Sorry, MAGA, all the crying and whining in the world can’t change reality!
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Reminds me of the anecdote:
Seated at the dining table, formal banquet, he leans to the ear of the woman seated to his left.
- Would you like to fly with me on my private jet to St. Maarten? After a moonlight walk on the beach we can overnight at my villa and be back to the U.S. before start of work Monday.
She agrees.
He then asks her, there's a hot-sheet motel around the corner, would you like to accompany me there after desert here?
- What sort of woman do you take me for sir! - she retorts.
He replies: we've already established that. Now we're just negotiating price.
Trump is forfeiting honor that has taken centuries to accumulate.
Trump may believe he's not forfeiting anything of value, since not only does Trump seem not to value such honor, but may not even recognize it.
Ceding U.S. territory to foreign military troops is a bad idea. Without reviewing the contract, we may not know how bad. Even at its best, it can't be good.
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And Trump has proven that the US can't be trusted past the next election. If even that long.
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Re #1,578
I've heard a very similar story but it was "will you sleep with me for $1 million" and "how about for $50"
I've heard a very similar story but it was "will you sleep with me for $1 million" and "how about for $50"