WATERTOWN — Rep. Claudia L. Tenney on Tuesday nominated former President Donald J. Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize for what she termed his “groundbreaking” efforts to foster peace and coordination among several countries in the Middle East through the Abraham Accords.
The 2020 agreement normalized diplomatic relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, with subsequent agreements reached with Morocco and Sudan. In the period that followed, the signatories began cooperating on trade and security arrangements.
Tenney, R-Cleveland, said in a statement that Trump, who is again seeking the Republican nomination for the presidency, has continued to be overlooked by the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, which has awarded prizes following the Camp David Accords in 1978 that resulted in a peace agreement between Israel and Egypt and the 1993 Oslo Accords that established a peace between Israel and Palestine that ultimately failed to hold.
“Donald Trump was instrumental in facilitating the first new peace agreements in the Middle East in almost 30 years,” Tenney said in her statement. “For decades, bureaucrats, foreign policy “professionals,” and international organizations insisted that additional Middle East peace agreements were impossible without a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. President Trump proved that to be false.”
Tenney said that Trump, who was nominated several times during his presidency for a Nobel Peace Prize but never awarded one, is deserving of the prize committee’s recognition for his “valiant” and “unprecedented” efforts in creating the Abraham Accords.
“Now more than ever, when Joe Biden’s weak leadership on the international stage is threatening our country’s safety and security, we must recognize Trump for his strong leadership and his efforts to achieve world peace. I am honored to nominate former President Donald Trump today and am eager for him to receive the recognition he deserves,” Tenney said.
Nobel Peace Prize recipients are announced each year in October, with winners receiving the awards on Dec. 10, the anniversary of the 1896 death of inventor and prize creator Alfred Nobel.
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DJT for peace. The world has actually lost its mind. Did Tenney fall on her head?
There are better candidates.
What is she drinking! Are both her and Elise shooting for VP.
I guess the paper does have to report this, and that sure is fine.
The puppet show is looking tired. And when that happens, the audience cringes. They vote with their feet, and walk out. Don't the esteemed congresswomen and men have better things to do? Your children snicker behind your back. Shame hovers.
Did you ever see someone hypnotized ... and then they wake up, only to realize they've been barking at the moon, or worse? Don't think DJT and any Nobel prize belong in the same universe. But that's me. After all, you can't fool all the people all the time!
Dumb gets dumber. Stark raving lunatic.
Yes indeed, this and punctuality is oppressive Whiteness. We have achieved a perfect society.
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