Not Necessarily At Peace

You're going to hate me, but, like Jimmy Carter I believe that this president...Agent Orange, The Donald, vulture of real estate, has a real shot at receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.




I'll wait.




I hope that by the time you continue this, you've stopped vomiting in the trashcans at your collective desks.  While I understand that the White House has now made a statement that the summit between Big DT and the Insane Human Rights Dictator Kim Jong-un may be delayed, if it actually happens, if they discuss nuclear disarmament, if they theoretically unite the two Koreas, then Donald J (stands for Jackass) Trump would be a clear candidate for the honor. 

Take that in for a little bit.

What's the logic?  Well, it could have been any American diplomat or international diplomat for that matter, sitting at that table, but it's not.  The Korean war started in 1950 and bringing about its end is worthy of ridiculous praise and would be a huge accomplishment.  What's more, it would be a far more concrete reason for the prize than the logic as to why Obama got one.  Frankly, that was an odd and poor choice in my opinion.  The Nobel committee's logic was that Obama went to "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples" without naming specific peoples or events.  After international criticism on the choice, the Nobel committee was quick to defend their choice indicating that he wasn't getting it because of what he would do as the newly elected American president...but what he had done.  Which was what, exactly? He wrote some books, won two Grammy's for the reading of those books, won his elections by a large majority, practiced civil rights law and made an important speech against the (unpopular) Iraq invasion, became senator...um...and then became President.   

I'm missing the details, and I'm happy to be wrong, but his rise to the Presidency wasn't bookended by Mother Theresa-like moves in international diplomacy and peace.  He was a good person...but maybe not as good as the people who were passed on that year to receive the prize.  Even the Nobel secretary has had second thoughts...especially after Obama's military accidentally bombed previous Nobel winner's Doctors Without Borders in 2015, when one Peace Prize winner bombed another.

I love to hate Trump, and I believe that Obama will be written into history as a good/productive President regardless if you like him or not.  Which is why I am secretly happy that our US Government, maybe prematurely, printed commemorative coins for this now-delayed summit.  You never know what you're going to get with a human-rights-abusing mad man (Trump or Kim), but if the summit doesn't happen now, at least I'll get a laugh out of this coin...and I won't have the nagging feeling that I would need to acknowledge the positive fact that Trump ended a 68 year war.