At a recent rally in Las Vegas, former President Donald Trump unleashed a bizarre tirade, fixating yet again on Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize as he claimed he deserved it more. This is not just a petty grievance; it’s a snapshot of a man who seems to have lost touch with reality.
While spewing falsehoods about everything from undocumented immigrants to voter fraud, Trump took the opportunity to revisit his long-standing grudge against Obama, ignited during the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner when Obama poked fun at him.
With an air of indignation, he raged, “They gave Obama the Nobel Prize,” Trump told the Vegas attendees. “He didn’t even know why the hell he got it, right? He still doesn’t. He got elected and they announced he’s getting the Nobel Prize. I got elected in a much bigger, better, crazier election, but they gave him the Nobel Prize.”
In a comical imitation of an “official” announcement, he mimicked the Nobel committee, bemoaning, “Ladies and gentlemen, the Nobel Prize will be won by Barack Hussein Obama. Barack Hussein Obama got the Nobel Prize. He didn’t even know what… He actually asked, ‘Why did I get it? Does anybody know?’ Right at the beginning, the early seconds of his administration. And he didn’t do a good job, brought a lot of division and a lot of hatred.”
This isn’t a one-off rant; Trump’s fixation on Obama’s Nobel is a running theme. In past speeches, he lamented how, despite his supposed diplomatic breakthroughs, he would likely never be recognized. He even whined about Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s nomination of him for a Nobel, saying, “I’ll probably never get it, but that’s okay.”
During another rally, Trump mused that if he were of a different political affiliation, he would have received a Nobel Prize for brokering peace agreements in the Middle East, declaring, “If it was anybody else, a liberal Democrat, they would have had it earmarked for me before the damn thing was even signed.”
This relentless obsession reveals a man more preoccupied with recognition than reality. His insistence that he deserves accolades akin to those awarded for genuine contributions to peace is not just absurd; it’s a disheartening reflection of a leader who measures his worth by unearned accolades rather than actual achievements.
As if to underscore the absurdity of his claims, on the same day Trump ranted in Las Vegas, 105 Nobel laureates signed open letters endorsing his political rival, Kamala Harris, warning that a Trump presidency would undermine U.S. leadership and progress on critical issues. The contrast could not be clearer: one leader is lauded for advancing peace and science, while the other spirals deeper into the delusions of grandeur fueled by a petty obsession with past slights.
This obsession is not merely a footnote in his campaign; it is a testament to a man still haunted by his past failures, unable to move forward while wallowing in the shadows of others’ successes.
Watch the clip below:
Trump delivers his closing message to voters by complaining that President Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize and he didn’t pic.twitter.com/H5H6BuNTiu
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 25, 2024
