Nobel Peace Prize?
Fox News reported that the leaders of several nations have nominated Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Part of the requirements for receiving this coveted prize include:
1. A recipient must have done something to be of the greatest benefit to mankind.
2. That benefit must include democracy, human rights, arms control, and environmentalism
3. The benefit must be for a sustained level of peace, not one particular incident.
4. Attaining the benefit must include the use of nonviolent methods.
A President who imprisons his citizens for being homeless, who uses the nation’s military to occupy its country’s cities, who sees criticism of his policies as a criminal offense (1st amendment rights?), and who uses the legal community of the country to prosecute his political rivals does not seem to me to meet these qualifications.
Let’s stop wasting needed public attention on this obsession to have what former President Barack Obama has and focus on very real issues like health care, housing, diversity and equity, gun control, voting rights, climate change and free speech.