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    Trump’s Nobel Nonsense

    by Robert Farley Sep 23, 2020 7 minutes

    In recent rallies, President Donald Trump has repeatedly conflated winning a Nobel Peace Prize with being nominated for one, and has wrongly faulted the media for ignoring his nomination after making former President Barack Obama’s nomination in 2009 “the biggest story I’ve ever seen.”

    The media attention for Obama came after he won the Nobel Peace Prize. Trump has been nominated, but that’s not the “big thing” he makes it out to be. There are 318 candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2020 — 211 are individuals and 107 organizations.

    Any one of thousands of people can nominate someone for the prestigious award. And two people have come forward saying they nominated Trump.

    But on its website, the Nobel committee warns not to attach too much importance to a nomination.

    “Any person or organization can be nominated by anyone eligible to nominate,” the committee states. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has no input into submissions, though it decides who actually wins the prize. “To simply be nominated is therefore not an endorsement or extended honour to imply affiliation with the Nobel Peace Prize or its related institutions,” the committee states.

    Nonetheless, Trump has touted the nomination repeatedly at campaign rallies, on

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