President Donald Trump did not win this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Instead, that honor went to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, and while you might think such a self-styled champion of democracy like MSNBC’s All In host Chris Hayes would applaud the selection, he instead ridiculed it as a “weird kind of ego consolation prize” for Trump. Also on Friday, Hayes would both misrepresent and repeat a hysterical article from The Guardian that said Trump would view not winning as an excuse to threaten Norway.
Hayes began, “Well, we have reached the end of the most ridiculous run-up to the Nobel Peace Prize I've ever seen. Donald Trump has been desperately, thirstily campaigning for the award. He obviously wanted to get the first phase of his Gaza peace deal, announced before the Nobel winner was announced early this morning, in, I think, some genuinely deluded hope that the committee would give him some kind of, like, last minute prize.”
He then added, “Unfortunately for Trump, it doesn't work that way. The committee made the decision on Monday. The Guardian reports that they were bracing for his wrath when he didn't get it.”
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