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World News See other World News Articles Title: Trump basks in praise as right-wing Norwegian lawmaker nominates him for 2021 Nobel Peace Prize saying 'he deserves it more than Obama' for brokering diplomatic ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates Trump basks in praise as right-wing Norwegian lawmaker nominates him for 2021 Nobel Peace Prize saying 'he deserves it more than Obama' for brokering diplomatic ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates >Trump was nominated by Norwegian MP Tybring-Gjedde, from the ultra- conservative Progress Party By CHRIS JEWERS FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 05:27 EDT, 9 September 2020 | UPDATED: 11:27 EDT, 9 September 2020 President Donald Trump has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for helping to broker peace between Israel and the United Arab Emirates - and immediately went on a Twitter spree of self- congratulation Wednesday. He was nominated by Christian Tybring-Gjedde, an ultra-conservative member of the Norwegian Parliament, who praised Trump for brokering a deal in which the UAE and Israel agreed to establish diplomatic ties and trade links and allow free travel between their countries for the first time. Tybring-Gjedde is an immigration skeptic who previously nominated Trump in 2018 for his meeting with Kim Jong-Un in Singapore. Trump lost and the prize went to Nadia Murad, a Yazidi who survive ISIS in Iraq and now campaigns against sexual violence in war. Insisting he is not a Trump supporter, he said: 'For his merit, I think he has done more trying to create peace between nations than most other Peace Prize nominees,' Tybring-Gjedde said to Fox News. 'The people who have received the Peace Prize in recent years have done much less than Donald Trump. For example, Barack Obama did nothing.' The decision on who wins is made by the five-member Nobel Prize Committee, which is chosen in line with the make-up of the Norwegian parliament; Tybring-Gjedde's party is not represented on it. That did not stop Trump from boasting on Twitter about the nomination, retweeting supporters and aides, among them Trish Regan, who was fired from Fox News in March after calling coronavirus 'another attempt to impeach the president,' and Marjorie Taylor Greene, a QAnon supporter running for a safe Republican district who questioned whether the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon really happened. Poster Comment: Plenty of Tweets at source. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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