The Washington Post, even after owner Jeff Bezos’s shakeups, is anything but a publication friendly to Republicans or the Trump administration. But even members of the legacy media sometimes have to admit the obvious.
One of those is Washington Post Marc A. Thiessen, who on Thursday penned a piece making the case for President Trump being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. This isn’t a new notion; the idea’s been kicked around before. But the calls seem to be getting louder.
Not only does Donald Trump deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, but there has arguably never been an American president who deserved it more.
Four of his predecessors have won the prize. Barack Obama won seven months into his presidency essentially for not being George W. Bush — and even he said he didn’t deserve it. Woodrow Wilson won for creating the League of Nations, which proved to be a feckless disaster that the United States never even joined. Theodore Roosevelt won for ending a single conflict, the Russo-Japanese War, which began with Japan’s 1904 attack on the Russian fleet in Manchuria (Japan later launched a full invasion of Manchuria in 1931, and then a surprise attack on the U.S. in 1941). Jimmy Carter won in 2002, more than two decades after leaving the White House, for a lifetime of work in peacemaking, beginning with the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt.
Barack Obama was, yes, given a Nobel Prize for existing, which was a rather obvious pander. Probably the only president who really won the Peace Prize for actually, you know, working for peace, was Theodore Roosevelt, who negotiated the end of the Russo-Japanese War.
By way of contrast, Mr. Thiessen points out President Trump’s accomplishments along these lines:
Contrast this with Trump’s record. In his first term, Trump brokered not one, not two, not three, but four Arab-Israeli peace accords — the first such agreements in more than a quarter-century. He did it by rejecting the failed conventional wisdom of the foreign policy establishment, which said that there could be no separate peace without the Palestinians and that moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and confronting Iran’s aggression would inflame the region and put peace out of reach. Those moves did the opposite. The Abraham Accords alone were an achievement worthy of a Nobel Prize.
And, of course, the Peace Prize hasn’t meant all that much since they gave one to Yasser Arafat. But this could redeem it, to some extent, at least.
Read More: Obama Weighs in on Israel-Hamas Peace Deal – Leaves Out One Key Name
‘Thank You for What You’ve Done for the World’: Rubio to Trump in Cabinet Meeting
Now, it’s unlikely President Trump’s name will ring any bells in Oslo. And, honestly, it’s unlikely the president will be terribly disappointed or surprised if Oslo forgoes giving him that honor that he so clearly deserves. Nobel or no Nobel, the President has done what he has done. He’s not negotiated the aforementioned Arab-Israeli peace agreements, but has also driven peace agreements between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, between Thailand and Cambodia, between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and may well have prevented a war between two nuclear powers, India and Pakistan.
While not strictly speaking a peaceful action, the president’s destruction of Iran’s nuclear capacity can only be seen as a net positive for world peace, as well.
The Nobel committee may still see fit to ignore all this. But President Trump has accomplished these things all the same. He may not be a Nobel laureate, but that doesn’t make him any less a peace president.
Editor’s Note: The Schumer Shutdown is here. Rather than put the American people first, Chuck Schumer and the radical Democrats forced a government shutdown for healthcare for illegals. They own this.
Help us continue to report the truth about the Schumer Shutdown. Use promo code POTUS47 to get 74% off your VIP membership.
