There's a growing chorus supporters calling for President Donald Trump to win the Nobel Prize for peace, nearly nine years after former President Barack Obama won the award, The Washington Post reports.
The crescendo coming from supporters, lawmakers and foreign leaders, however, vexes historians and objective onlookers who say one event — last week's peace summit between the Koreas — does not a Nobel Peace Prize make. Trump hasn't even met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un yet.
"It's very difficult on something like Korea, because it's going to be such a long time before we know what the outcome is," Republican strategist Rory Cooper told the Post.
Republicans were just as vexed when Obama won in 2009 for "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
"That would really be a real Nobel Peace Prize, not like the fake one we gave to the last president," Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kent., said last week. "That would be a real Nobel Peace Prize if we got a real, meaningful peace with North Korea."
The calls for Trump to win the peace prize have come from all corners, including Republican lawmakers Reps. Marsha Blackburn and Luke Messer and Sen. Lindsey Graham, as well as South Korean President Moon Jae-in himself.
Even Trump supporters last week in Michigan began a chant of "No-bel!" for the peace talks Trump brokered between North Korea and South Korea.
"I don't think the chemistry is right at this moment for the word ‘Nobel' to be put anywhere near Trump's name," presidential historian Douglas Brinkley told the Post about the chants. "It's like something you get at a big time wrestling rally or a kind of mob chant. I don't think anybody takes it seriously."
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