Trump Launches Wild Self-Soothing Posting Spree After Nobel Snub

Trump Launches Wild Self-Soothing Posting Spree After Nobel Snub

President Donald Trump woke up on Friday morning and posted multiple videos of his loyal supporters praising him, rather than acknowledging that he did not win the Nobel Peace Prize. Trump missed out on the prestigious honor he so desperately wanted to María Corina Machado, the influential Venezuelan opposition leader who has been furiously battling the country’s totalitarian president, Nicolás Maduro. The U.S. president chose not to recognize t…

The Nobel ‘snub’ suits Trump just fine

Of course, Donald Trump has not won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Scandinavian grandees on the committee wouldn’t dream of honoring him. It was silly to think that they would. The award has gone instead to María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition figure, so well done to her. Still, it speaks to the fundamental vanity of our age that the Nobel is today’s big story, as if the complexity of world affairs can be boiled down to a yearly episode o…