Washington – The Senate’s top leader says it’s “premature” to tout President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize in pursuing a peace deal with North Korea.
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But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell chuckled as he mentioned the “chagrin” it would cause the Nobel committee to award Trump the world’s most coveted diplomatic prize.
The Republican senator made the comments this week to WHAS-AM in his home state of Kentucky.
U.S. and North Korean officials are continuing talks aimed at salvaging a summit between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. McConnell says the U.S. should always be “skeptical” when dealing with North Korea, but says it’s good that Trump and Kim could meet.
But it was OK to give Obama one without him doing anything at all….
Let’s split the difference. Obama didn’t deserve the Nobel, and as of now, neither does Trump.
Let me repeat: Those that claim that President Obama did zero for eight years: I have to rinse and repeat for you old or hard-of-hearing or hard-of-seeing folks: Obama saved your probably oversize stomach/butt/back on 1/20/09 as our country was two inches from a second Great Depression! Our auto industry was saved (and they paid back their billions in loans by the end of Obama’s first term, with interest); the stock market went from 7,000 in 2009 to 19,000-plus handed to Trump on Jan. 20, 2017; unemployment went from 10% in 2009 to handed to Trump under 5%. Best of all, 20 million Americans gained access to a doctor just like you and I on Jan. 1, 2010. Those of us with brains “thanked” Obama by reelecting him in 2012.
As for Israel, who provided it with all this sophisticated weaponry they can now use on Iran? And did it for a full 8 years ! Trump gets credit for a lot, but don’t put Obama down. A little gratitude, perhaps?