Sorry, doesn’t count
Huh. Word is, Shinzo Abe did indeed nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe nominated U.S. President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize last autumn after receiving a request from the U.S. government to do so, the Asahi newspaper reported on Sunday.
The report follows Trump’s claim on Friday that Abe had nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize for opening talks and easing tensions with North Korea.
Trump didn’t say anything about asking him to. He just said Abe nominated him – he said it smugly, as if it were an exciting unsolicited honor, as opposed to a favor done on request from a heavily-armed acquaintance. An extorted “favor” isn’t really a favor and an extorted honor doesn’t count as an honor. Rather the reverse, actually.
The Japanese leader had given him “the most beautiful copy” of a five-page nomination letter, Trump said at a White House news conference.
The U.S. government had sounded Abe out over the Noble Peace Prize nomination after Trump’s summit in June last year with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un…
But then there’s all the “Little Rocket Man” and “my button actually works” aggro, so I wouldn’t place any large bets on his chances.
Not to mention, raining fire and fury…
Now that we know the competition , it’d be so much sweeter if José Andrés won.
Five pages? No way he read that, even though it’s about him. Hopefully Abe put “Fuck Trump” or something somewhere in the middle of page four where nobody would see it.
Just who stood in for the government to make such a request? Some White House flunky? The ambassador?
@John:
Probably the ambassador. Those Ferrero Rocher are the standard unit of currency in diplomatic relations and they don’t buy themselves. It’s an inevitable route to corruption.
Explanation for anyone not present in the UK in the 90s: https://youtu.be/hMlP_Moo0bE
Fun fact. I was once invited to an actual proper ambassador’s reception. I didn’t go so I can’t comment on whether it was as wonderful as the one in the link. Come to think of it, it would probably have been a more fun fact if I’d actually gone, but who can be arsed with that kind of thing?