CNN Host Makes Brutal Case In Favor Of Trump Nobel Prize

CNN host Michael Smerconish offered a perhaps unintentionally brutal argument in favor of awarding President Donald Trump the Nobel Prize if peace takes hold over the next year.

The Nobel Committee honored Machado on Friday for her activism in opposition to Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro’s regime, a prize that Machado dedicated to Trump. The decision sent waves of apoplexy through Trump’s allies and supporters.

Many perceived a slight when Nobel Committee Chair Jørgen Watne Frydnes was asked about Trump, and responded “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.”

On Saturday morning’s edition of CNN’s Smerconish, the host accused his listeners of “Trump Derangement Syndrome” for not supporting the award for Trump even a year from now, and made his case by first noting “I’ve looked at what Alfred Nobel’s will actually says, and character is not expressly stated”:

MICHAEL SMERCONISH: I’ll tell you this, yesterday the poll question at Smerconish.com, you know I love my poll questions. And so I asked the audience, and I discussed on radio, I knew by the time that we posted it that President Trump did not receive this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.

And really he couldn’t, given the timing and the deadline for the nominations.

Theoretically he could have, but not for Gaza and the peace agreement.

So I asked the audience yesterday, if the peace lasts, if this agreement holds a year from now, should President Trump receive a Nobel Peace Prize?

More than 35,000 people voted, not scientific, but interesting nonetheless. And in round numbers, 75% said no, which I thought was more reflective of Trump derangement syndrome than anything else.

I’ve looked at what Alfred Nobel’s will actually says, and character is not expressly stated.

It speaks of establishing fraternity among nations.

So if he’s able to do something that no one else was prepared– able to do, prepared and able to do, if a year from now the peace has held, then he ought to be the recipient of a Nobel Peace Prize.

That that to me is a no-brainer and hopefully he’ll provide same level of engagement and lean on Putin. And bring about some resolution with with Ukraine.

Watch above via CNN’s Smerconish.