South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham suggested this week that if President Donald Trump were to win the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize, the unhinged left would react in rather unhealthy ways, to put it lightly.
“Well if North Korea comes through, yes,” the senator said Thursday after being asked by a TMZ reporter whether he thought Trump might win. “I’ll say this, if Donald Trump gets the Nobel Peace Prize, liberals all over the world will jump out of buildings.”
Listen to his full response below:
Graham delivered this zinger a day before the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize was slated to be awarded.
“It’s not about being liked, it’s about results,” he added after the cameraman complained that Trump wasn’t “too liked.” “So I think he’s doing a good job destroying ISIS, taking Iran on, but if we get North Korea to give up their nukes and live in peace, God, he would deserve a Nobel Peace Prize.”
Tensions between the United States and North Korea have cooled dramatically since the president’s rudely interrupted summit with dictator Kim Jong Un over the summer. And during the Hermit Kingdom’s 70th anniversary parade last month, no nuclear missiles were seen:
North Korea has just staged their parade, celebrating 70th anniversary of founding, without the customary display of nuclear missiles. Theme was peace and economic development. “Experts believe that North Korea cut out the nuclear missiles to show President Trump……
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 9, 2018
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was reportedly scheduled to arrive in North Korea over the weekend to continue ongoing negotiations and possibly schedule a second summit.
Despite the president’s accomplishments, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wound up awarding the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize to Nadia Murad, a Yazidi-Iraqi human rights activist and former Islamic State slave, and Denis Mukwege, a Congolese gynecologist who specializes in treating rape victims of war.
The interview between Graham and a TMZ reporter concluded after the reporter noted to the senator that former President Barack Obama had once won a Noble Peace Prize.
“Yeah, he won for not being [President] Bush,” Graham quickly replied, the point being that Obama had done virtually nothing to earn the award.
He was correct. The former president won the award in 2009 despite being in office for only nine months and accomplishing nothing notable. Former Nobel Institute director and Nobel Commitee secretary Geir Lundestad admitted six years later that the committee had voted to award the prize to Obama to try and help him achieve peace — which he never did.
“[We] thought it would strengthen Obama and it didn’t have this effect,” Lundestad conceded during a 2015 interview with the Associated Press.
The reactions on social media to Graham’s remarks were divided, with some playing along with Graham’s zinger and others throwing a pity party.
Look:
— Unicorn Mom (@Sauerissweet) October 5, 2018
— Raudel Wilson (@raudelwilson) October 5, 2018
— ⚡HUNTER⚡ (@XXXHUNTER77XX) October 5, 2018
No they actually just burn and loot buildings when the don’t get their way!
— Ron (@nbfl20) October 5, 2018
Just like they said they’d move out of the country if he was elected….lemme tell ya how disappointing it was that they didn’t. VERY! And it’ll be just as disappointing if they don’t follow through here, which is clearly a trend with these people, maybe that’s why she didn’t win
— Blake Scott (@RealiBlake) October 5, 2018
I doubt it because there won’t be any yet when Kavanugh gets voted to Supreme Court next week. They will jump then
— Mike (@michaege) October 5, 2018
He should win the worst president prize.
— Dee D (@Diondias66) October 5, 2018
I wish he would jump out of a building.
— Blicky Whoreowitz (@pennylanye) October 5, 2018
Sad @LindseyGrahamSC that you have taken a play out of DJT playbook and continuing to divide the country with your rhetoric.
— Boston Fan (@PatreceH) October 5, 2018
Newsflash to liberals: Jokes don’t divide a country — they make a country laugh.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer for BizPac Review with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University.
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