After threatening and begging the Nobel Committee by Little Donny, will make it’s choice known today…..will Donny get his wish or will the Nobel people do the right thing and pick someone with integrity and a moral compass?

Donny’s Gaza peace plan was a made for TV special with the hopes of influencing the Committee in his favor….did it work?

The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday, and the big question is whether it will go to President Trump. The president and the White House have made no secret of his desire to win it, with repeated references to his role in ending conflicts around the world. The new Israel-Hamas peace deal, however, likely won’t be a factor because of the timing. Coverage:

• Mideast: “Nobel Prize to Trump!” supporters cheered in Tel Aviv after the peace deal was announced, reports the New York Post. Israeli farmers even spelled out “Nobel 4 Trump” in a field, notes Mediaite. In Gaza, Palestinians also chanted Trump’s name in praise.
• Too late: The Norwegian prize committee held its final meeting on Monday, meaning the decision was made before the Israeli-Hamas deal was announced, reports the Times of Israel. Typically, the panel makes its decision several days or weeks in advance, then meets a final time before the announcement.
• Unlikely: In an essay for Time, the director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (not affiliated with the Nobel) writes that Trump is a long shot this year. Nina Graeger cites Trump’s decision to pull the US out of multiple international pacts and to cut foreign aid, seeing it as at odds with the Nobel ideal of global cooperation. Although Trump “has made notable efforts in several areas, the overall record at this stage does not fully align with the standards outlined by Alfred Nobel,” she writes. “Should his initiatives—such as efforts to end the war in Gaza—achieve lasting success, the situation could look quite different this time next year.”
• Worthy: One of those who nominated Trump is American-Israeli academic Anat Alon-Beck, who lays out his case in a Fox News essay. “His ability to broker peace, hold adversaries accountable, and foster alliances has positioned him as one of the most consequential leaders of our time,” the essay reads. “His leadership is so consequential that even Iran, long the chief sponsor of terror and resistance to peace, was forced to recalibrate its rhetoric and behavior in the face of the new regional reality his policies created.”
• Bettors: On the online betting site Polymarket, Trump had a 5.7% chance of winning on Thursday. In first place are “Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms,” which have been helping the injured in the war-torn country, at 35%. Also ahead of Trump are Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny, at 10%; and Doctors Without Borders at 6%.

Who will be their choice?

Give it to a dog catcher as long as Donny does not get his grubbing hands on the prize.

Stop The Presses!

Well Donny is still a loser.

The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 is Maria Corina Machado, a woman who has been described as Venezuela’s “symbol of resistance” to Nicolas Maduro’s regime. The Nobel Committee said Friday morning that it had decided to award the prize to the opposition leader for her “tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.” Jørgen Watne Frydnes, the Norwegian committee’s chair, described her as a “brave and committed champion of peace” who “keeps the flame of democracy burning during a growing darkness,” the Guardian reports.

Asked about President Trump’s push to be awarded the prize, Frydnes said the committee receives thousands of letters a year and it has seen “media tension” in the past, the BBC reports. “We base our decision only on the work and the will of Alfred Nobel,” he said. Trump has long said he deserves a peace prize and he stepped up his campaign in recent months, though the committee held its final meeting on Monday, days before the breakthrough in Gaza peace talks.

Before the announcement, newspaper columnist Harald Stanghelle said that if he didn’t get the prize, Trump might retaliate against Norway by imposing higher tariffs or even by declaring the country an enemy, the Guardian reports. Trump “is so unpredictable. I don’t want to use the word ‘fear’ but there is a feeling that it could be a challenging situation,” he said. “It’s very, very difficult to explain to Donald Trump or to many other countries in the world that it is a totally independent committee because they do not respect this kind of independence.”

Personally I think Doctors Without Borders should have won the prize…..for they do amazing work.

Thoughts?

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