Yet in being snubbed, he nonetheless proved something extremely important.
His rejection reveals that the official claim of the award is false when it says the prize goes to ''the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.''
That standard describes exactly the peace Trump has achieved this year by settling conflicts around the world, most recently and dramatically in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
Large numbers of additional people would have died had he not personally intervened and sent his envoys to the region to bring Hamas
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
and Israel to the table.
The tangible result is already clear, with a cease-fire in place and tens of thousands of displaced Paleostinians streaming back toward Gaza City.
The release of the hostages Hamas has been holding for two brutal years is scheduled to happen tomorrow, an event that seemed all but impossible until Trump put his prestige and America's might on the table with a vow to end the war.
He employed a brilliant tactical move by having the White House seek and quickly win the endorsement of Israel and other regional powers, including
...a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants...
member, but not the most reliable...
, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...and Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, which created a sense of momentum that even the murderous Hamas could not resist.
'PARTICIPATION TROPHY'
Trump achieved something similarly dramatic in his first term, when he fashioned the historic Abraham Accords.
Then, four Moslem nations normalized relations with Israel, including trade and tourism, in a glorious ceremony on the White House lawn.
An instant headline — ''Kosher food in Dubai'' — captured the practical impact of historic barriers falling and ordinary people benefitting.
Unfortunately, the achievement of real peace does not seem to be the metric the Norwegian committee demands and rewards.
This, after all, is the group that gave the award to Barack Obama
I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody...
soon after he took office and before he had actually done anything of any significance, other than get elected.
No results, no problem, because the deciders swooned over the racial symbolism Obama represented and his international apology tours where he bemoaned America's use of power throughout history.
With this year's award, the Nobel committee has once again revealed its woke, misguided belief that urging peace and talking about it are the preeminent virtues.
In the process, the members have blessed the terrible idea that the right kind of talk is the most that people around the world can expect from their leaders.
Because results are not required, the committee has effectively degraded the sainted Nobel into a kind of participation trophy for those with good intentions.
The use of hard power has become something of a taboo, which strikes me as especially ironic given that Alfred Nobel invented dynamite!
Against that prejudice, Trump never had a prayer of winning.
He is an excellent talker in his own punch-in-the-nose manner, but his bluntness will never be confused with the dreamy, touchy-feely prattle of the supposedly sophisticated global elite.
His motto of America First must surely horrify the Nobel custodians even though much of the world is reaping the benefits of his use of American economic and military power.
A related problem is that he never pretends to be about anything other than hard results, as his life story, in and out of politics, abundantly illustrates.
He makes a sharp contrast to this year's winner, Maria Corina Machado, the opposition leader in Venezuela
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south...
She was cited for ''promoting democratic rights'' and for ''her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.''
There is no dispute that her quest requires enormous personal courage and sacrifice, given the thuggish instincts of the Maduro regime.
But absent results, the Nobel becomes an award for trying to do the right thing instead of actually delivering the concrete and identifiable results the founder envisioned.
ECHOING REAGAN
In that sense, it's noteworthy that in accepting the award, Machado dedicated it ''to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!''
Her recognition of Trump reflects the real-world impact of his use of power to bring peace in Venezuela and elsewhere.
His approach is an inspiring embodiment of Ronald Reagan's pledge to deliver ''Peace through Strength.''
It's how Reagan helped to topple the Berlin Wall on the way to defeating the Soviet Union.