White Home Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made a weird demand on the White Home press briefing Thursday. Talking from the rostrum and with a straight face, she referred to as for the Nobel Committee handy over a peace prize to President Donald Trump.
Leavitt insisted Trump deserved one for settling six world conflicts and brokering peace offers and agreements in his first months in workplace.
“The president has now ended conflicts between Thailand and Cambodia, Israel and Iran, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, India and Pakistan, Serbia and Kosovo and Egypt and Ethiopia,” Leavitt mentioned.
“This implies President Trump has brokered, on common, about one peace deal or ceasefire monthly throughout his six months in workplace. It’s properly previous time that President Trump was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize,” she continued.
However the wars Trump promised to finish are nonetheless raging. Russia remains to be bombing Ukraine. Palestinians are ravenous in Gaza, and there’s no ceasefire on the horizon between Israel and Hamas.
And as for the battle between Rwanda and Congo, Trump mentioned he didn’t know what the Congo was when officers from the 2 nations got here to Washington in late June to signal a peace settlement.
“People who had been in jail for horrible — you already know, they launch jails from all around the world and launch them. Not simply South America. The Congo in Africa. Many, many individuals come from the Congo. I don’t know what that’s, however they got here from the Congo,” Trump from the White Home in a clip journalist Aaron Rupar posted.
“She mentioned ‘noble’ as a result of they’re each imbeciles,” political commentator Keith Olbermann mentioned on X.
“I’m considering extra for economics – he’s completed a cracking job on the flip flop tariff ‘coverage’ – signed gazillions of commerce offers price quintillions of $s and is aware of extra about economics than the Fed or each/any economist on the f%$cking planet…,” this X person wrote.
This isn’t the primary time Leavitt has demanded a Peace Prize for Trump.
“Trump deserves Nobel Peace Prize. He’s achieved greater than those that’ve gained earlier than,” Leavitt mentioned in a submit on X in early July.
Trump has lengthy craved a Nobel Peace Prize after former President Barack Obama gained the coveted award in 2010.
