The Nobel Peace Prize did not go to President Donald Trump on Friday. That is because he actually worked hard to achieve peace this year, which is the last thing that the award seeks to recognize, despite its origins.
The Nobel Peace Prize has been trash for decades. Long before it went to President Barack Obama simply for the achievement of being elected, the Nobel had given undue recognition to a rogues’ gallery of miscreants.
The worst was Palestinian terrorist Yasser Arafat, who shared the Nobel with Israeli leaders Yitzchak Rabin and Shimon Peres in 1994. In that case, the Nobel committee at least recognized an effort at peacemaking, which took the form of the hopelessly naive Oslo Peace Accords in 1993. But Arafat remained a terrorist. He ruled his own people with brutality, and la