In speeches and press conferences, he has repeatedly reeled off a list of the seven wars he says he has solved. He's boasted that he deserves the award and that "everyone says I should get it" - and world leaders appear to have realised Nobel flattery is a way to his heart.
Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu publicly whipped out a nomination letter at the White House; Azerbaijan's president told Trump in a news conference that he deserved the prize, and Pakistan's government announced it had nominated him, winning plaudits from the president.
So is it actually conceivable that President Trump could win?
Is the BBC really being serious? What on earth has Trump ever done to deserve the Nobel Peace Prize? He’s blowing Venezuelan boats to smithereens in the Caribbean and killing the crews, and is itching to go to war with Nicolás Maduro to topple him. And this so-called Gaza peace plan has probably been engineered by his chum, Netanyahu, ‘just in time’. We know nothing much of the details of the plan yet, or how it will be implemented. The other day Trump wanted to ethnically cleanse Gaza to create a riviera for Trump’s very own luxury properties to attract the superrich, the poor Palestinians be damned! Moreover, in the streets of America, mayhem rules, and poor immigrants are being beaten and being disappeared. Nothing much peaceful about that!
It is to be hoped that the Nobel prize authorities will not fall for this. It is hard to imagine that they will. — © Mark Alexander
