On the day all this devastating news came out that makes it very clear that Trump is responsible for many of the 190,000 preventable deaths we’ve had over the past six months, this comes out:
President Donald Trump on Wednesday vigorously promoted the newsthat he had been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, tweeting at least 17 times in less than a half-hour about his candidacy for the prestigious commendation he has long sought.
Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a far-right member of the Norwegian Parliament, revealed his nomination of Trump in a Facebook post citing the “groundbreaking cooperation agreement” the White House announced last month between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
Tybring-Gjedde was one of two Norwegian lawmakers who previously submitted Trump’s name for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018 after his first summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore — during which Trump and Kim signed a joint agreement committing to the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in declared in 2018 that Trump “should win the Nobel Peace Prize” for his efforts to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula and his role in talks between Moon and Kim. Trump responded by saying Moon’s suggestion was “very nice” and “very generous.”
Trump claimed last February that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe nominated him for a Nobel Peace Prize for his attempts to broker peace between North and South Korea, saying Abe had shown him “the most beautiful five-page letter” recommending Trump’s candidacy. Abe did not comment on whether he had indeed nominated Trump.
Trump celebrated his latest nomination Wednesday morning on Twitter, sharing several congratulatory messages from supporters including conservative radio host Mark Levin, Fox Business Network’s Lou Dobbs, and Republican congressional candidates Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert — who have both boosted the dangerous QAnon conspiracy theory.
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany also offered praise for the president, telling Fox News that his nomination was a “big deal” and “well-deserved” while misleadingly describing the Israel-UAE agreement as a “peace deal.”
“This president’s created peace around the world, drew down endless wars, and this is a president who is very much deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize,” she said, adding that “you cannot deny what has happened on President Trump’s watch.”
Although Trump was similarly enthusiastic about his nomination, he seemingly thought it to be overdue, retweeting a message asking: “What took so long?”
Can you say delusional?
In Woodward’s book, Jared Kushner is quoted saying that the best way to understand Trump is to read “Alice in Wonderland.”
In the book, Kushner is quoted describing four texts people should “absorb” if they want to truly understand the President. Woodward writes the texts do not paint a flattering picture of someone who is both Kushner’s boss and father-in-law.T
he first text Kushner recommends is a 2018 opinion piece by Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal. Noonan’s assessment of Trump: “He’s crazy… and it’s kind of working.” Noonan also calls Trump a “circus act,” and “a living insult.”Woodward writes that Kushner had to know the column was “quite devastating.”
The second text Kushner points to is “Alice in Wonderland.” Kushner is quoted as paraphrasing the Cheshire Cat as a means of understanding Trump: “If you don’t know where you’re going, any path will get you there.”
Woodward writes, “Did Kushner understand how negative this was? Was it possible the best roadmap for the administration was a novel about a young girl who falls through a rabbit hole, and Kushner was willing to acknowledge that Trump’s presidency was on shaky, directionless ground?”
The third text Kushner suggests is from author Chris Whipple’s book “The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency.”Whipple writes, “What seems clear, as of this writing, and almost a year into his presidency, is that Trump will be Trump, no matter his chief of staff.”
The final text Kushner offers is “Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don’t Matter,” by Scott Adams, creator of the “Dilbert” comic strip. According to Adams, Trump employs a technique called “intentional wrongness persuasion,” and “can invent any reality” because “all you will remember is that he provided his reasons, he didn’t apologize, and his opponents called him a liar like they always do.”
It was clear to Woodward that none of this was meant to criticize Trump, just as a way to help understand him.
That said, Woodward was surprised and writes, “when combined, Kushner’s four texts painted President Trump as crazy, aimless, stubborn and manipulative. I could hardly believe anyone would recommend these as ways to understand their father-in-law, much less the president they believed in and served.”
I guess we knew that Jared is just as dumb as Trump. But saying this to Bob Woodward is one of the dumbest things he’s ever done. And I think he’s so dumb he doesn’t know how dumb it is.