[ToDougie]

I would prefer if awards were given to people for something they achieved, not for something they promised to achieve.

The Arab Spring did not occur in a vacuum. If you're satisfied with America's public or private involvement, great. General Wesley Clark has a rather infamous interview from 2007 that you may want to consider.

Anyways, I think Trump is better motivated by not giving him the Peace Prize.

[hunterpayne]

Unfun fact, the Arab Spring was caused by a spike in food prices, not from any sort of political or leadership changes or behavior. The spike in food prices came from an unfortunate combination of bad weather in Russia and Obama's policies (specially biofuels). To his credit, Obama pulled the plug on the biofuel disaster after about 6 months but by then, it wasn't spring anymore and the Syrian civil war had already begun.

[notepad0x90]

Trump is a jerk. and he makes a million promises and keeps like 10. He isn't the type of person that is afraid of looking bad because he broke a promise, he's more likely to use a peace prize to justify violence because after all, it has to be someone else's fault since he has a peace prize awarded to him.

Maybe there should be other prizes for life time achievement or something, but the Nobel committee seems to be intent on promoting peace instead of giving kudos to someone.

I think neither obama or trump qualify, even to promote peace. it implies that they are law makers. in the US, the president is supposed to be an executive that takes actions, not a legislator that has the power to start or end wars. Treat them like kings and be surprised when one of them dumb enough to think he actually is one starts acting like it. that's the state of things unfortunately.

[russellbeattie]

> ...he makes a million promises and keeps like 10.

Depends on who he's making the promises to.

Everything he promised during the election in terms of vengeance, hatred, ignorance, bigotry, etc. as enumerated in Project 2025 has been fulfilled as promised to a T, or is on its way.

In fact, from that perspective, I'd say he's kept more promises and acted more quickly on them than any other president in history. As long as the promise includes cruelty or injustice, he is as good as his word.