NCS host Michael Smerconish supplied a maybe unintentionally brutal argument in favor of awarding President Donald Trump the Nobel Prize if peace takes maintain over the subsequent 12 months.
The Nobel Committee honored Machado on Friday for her activism in opposition to Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro’s regime, a prize that Machado devoted to Trump. The choice despatched waves of apoplexy by way of Trump’s allies and supporters.
Many perceived a slight when Nobel Committee Chair Jørgen Watne Frydnes was requested about Trump, and responded “This committee sits in a room filled with the portraits of all laureates and that room is filled with both courage and integrity. So we base only our decision on the work and the will of Alfred Nobel.”
On Saturday morning’s edition of NCS’s Smerconish, the host accused his listeners of “Trump Derangement Syndrome” for not supporting the award for Trump even a 12 months from now, and made his case by first noting “I’ve looked at what Alfred Nobel’s will actually says, and character is not expressly stated”:
MICHAEL SMERCONISH: I’ll let you know this, yesterday the ballot query at Smerconish.com, I like my ballot questions. And so I requested the viewers, and I mentioned on radio, I knew by the point that we posted it that President Trump didn’t obtain this 12 months’s Nobel Peace Prize.
And actually he couldn’t, given the timing and the deadline for the nominations.
Theoretically he might have, however not for Gaza and the peace settlement.
So I requested the viewers yesterday, if the peace lasts, if this settlement holds a 12 months from now, ought to President Trump obtain a Nobel Peace Prize?
More than 35,000 folks voted, not scientific, however attention-grabbing nonetheless. And in spherical numbers, 75% stated no, which I assumed was extra reflective of Trump derangement syndrome than anything.
I’ve checked out what Alfred Nobel’s will really says, and character will not be expressly said.
It speaks of building fraternity amongst nations.
So if he’s in a position to do one thing that nobody else was ready– in a position to do, ready and in a position to do, if a 12 months from now the peace has held, then he must be the recipient of a Nobel Peace Prize.
That that to me is a no brainer and hopefully he’ll present identical stage of engagement and lean on Putin. And result in some decision with with Ukraine.