No, you haven’t been double-secret-probation hotlinked over to The Onion. We are however in the Twilight Zone of The Outer Limits these days. There are more serious matters going on as I write this to be sure. Still, we all know how hard Donald Trump has tried to get himself what he feels is his birthright — a Nobel Peace Prize. Don’t worry, he hasn’t given up on that but now he’s got his minions saying he deserves TWO. One for all the “Peace” he’s made happen (?) and one for changing world trade/economics. Again?
I reiterate the White House is serious about this. In yet another Trumpian case of “you can’t make this sh*t up” according to The Hill White House Trade Advisor Peter Navarro, Trump’s “commitment to restructuring global trade rates” merits a Nobel Prize. This I remind you is the same Peter Navarro who was convicted of two counts of Contempt of Congress (the only White House official in history convicted on that charge) and did a short (too short) stink in federal prison. Navarro’s Wikepedia page dryly notes his economic philosophies are considered “fringe” by most economists. So let’s just say take anything you hear from Navarro with a grain of salt. A VERY big grain. For sure his talk about Trump and the Nobel of Economics is “out there.”
“I’m thinking that since he’s basically taught the world trade economics, he might be up for the Nobel on economics because this is a fundamental restructuring of the international trade environment in a way where the biggest market in the world has said, you’re not going to cheat us anymore,” Navarro said during an appearance on Fox Business Network.
“we’re going to have fair deals. And everything he’s doing has defied the critics. the tariffs have been tax cuts rather than inflation he added.
But why stop there? Every year, the Nobel committee awards a prize for medicine — and Trump has presented some groundbreaking ideas about injecting disinfectants into people. Sure, the medical “establishment” frowns on these sorts of treatments, but that’s all the more reason to reward the president’s “outside the box” creativity.
There’s also a Nobel Prize in literature that could theoretically go to Trump. Has the Nobel committee seen his weird letters to foreign leaders? How about his hysterical tweets filled with misspellings, weird capitalization and enough exclamation points to make an ill-tempered tween blush?
Maddow Blog goes on to suggest going whole hog and renaming the Nobel Prizes the Trump Prizes. I rather doubt the Nobel Foundation and the King of Sweden care what Trump and his slobbering, loudmouth goobers think. He can threaten all he wants and they will just laugh at him. However, while Trump would never personally put up the money to endow a set of “Better than the Nobel Prizes” awards he can probably get someone to do so. Maybe not Musk anymore but Bezos is plenty rich and owns the WaPo. Trump could plant his own person in some of the (diminished for caving to him) big name universities to “approve” nominees in the various categories. Or he could pressure Congress to pass legislation creating the Trump Awards and the funding!
Don’t be surprised if something like that happens. Just because Truth Social flopped and didn’t dethrone both twitter and FB doesn’t mean Trump will abandon the idea of creating awards in his name to eclipse the Nobels. Trump of course will be the recipient of the award in each category every year…
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“ short (too short) *stink* in federal prison”
Just posting so you know that yes, I am reading this closely.
I hope the Ig Nobel committee gets together and awards him both. (He won’t know the difference.)
The Nobel prize for being a complete and utter dick.
Next, they’ll tell us he deserves all door prizes and split the pot proceeds. But why stop there? Let’s make him the annual winner of the Publishers Clearing House giveaway and at least one state lottery of his choice every month.
He wants it all and is prepared to pass laws so that he can have it!
All I want is to read his obituary.