Congressman Derrick Van Orden vented his deep disappointment at Donald Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize snub with a passionate rant against the institution itself.
This year’s laureate was announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday, with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado granted the honor despite Trump’s increasingly bold and public lobbying for the prize.
Speaking on Newsmax’s Conversations with Nancy Brinker on Sunday, Van Orden raged at the injustice to stand-in host Ed Henry, saying that the committee just couldn’t handle a “strong, America-first leader.”
Speaking of Trump’s efforts in the Middle East, Henry prompted: “Your thoughts, by the way, I can’t resist when you mentioned the Nobel committee.”
Suggesting that a higher power might give Trump a far more heavenly prize, he added: “I think it was in Basrah, Huckabee, our ambassador in Israel who said ‘Look, the ultimate judge is gonna be God, not, you know, some committee in in Europe.’”
The Newsmax host continued: “And, frankly, sir, if, you know, if this president can end the war in Ukraine, which President Zelensky seems optimistic about today, there’s no stopping—whether the Nobel committee wants to recognize it or not, right. The world knows, don’t they congressman?”
Agreeing that the world thought of the president as the ultimate force for peace even if the Nobel committee didn’t, Van Orden stated: “Well they sure do. And listen, at this point the Nobel Peace Prize does not deserve Donald J. Trump.”
He then lamented: “I mean it’s just—it’s shocking and so in your face. I mean, this guy has done more for world peace in nine months any president in the history of the United States. Period. And it should be recognized.
“But unfortunately he’s not a globalist, and he’s not some fancy guy that’s in these circles that are getting rewarded constantly through the international community.”
Van Orden doubled down: “You know why? Because he’s a strong, America-first leader and they simply don’t like that.”
Van Orden has joined many other big MAGA names in blasting the Nobel Peace Prize after Trump’s loss. It seems that the president’s coveting of the award didn’t go unnoticed by the committee.
Speaking after Machado’s win was announced, committee chair Jørgen Watne Frydnes responded to questions about Trump, and suggested that he may not quite have been who founder Alfred Nobel was thinking of when he established the origin of prizes in his will in 1895.
“In the long history of the Nobel Peace Prize, I think this committee has seen many types of campaign, media attention. We receive thousands and thousands of letters every year of people wanting to say what, for them, leads to peace,” he said.
“This committee sits in a room filled with the portraits of all laureates and that room is filled with both courage and integrity. So we base only our decision on the work and the will of Alfred Nobel.”
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