A senior Ukrainian lawmaker who put President Donald Trump forward for a Nobel Peace Prize has withdrawn his nomination.

Oleksandr Merezhko, the head of Ukraine’s parliamentary foreign committee, told Newsweek on Tuesday that he had “lost any sort of faith and belief” in Trump and his ability to secure a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine.

Merezhko said Trump had “virtually no reaction” to large-scale strikes on the Ukrainian capital in recent weeks, adding: “He has chosen the path of appeasement.”

  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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    19 hours ago

    Why this poor deluded fool nominated Trump for a Nobel peace prize in the first place is anyone’s guess.

    Incidentally, a friend of mine is a Nobel prize nominee. He’s been putting that in his resume for decades, and it never fails to impress. What he never explains is that anybody can be a Nobel prize nominee. In his case, a friend of his, who was a university professor, nominated him at his behest for shits and giggles. And that’s all it takes to be nominated, and for the nominee to put the word Nobel in their resume.

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    17 hours ago

    I mean, all you have to do is look at Trump’s domestic policy to see he’s a violent monster of a person. If he somehow were to win the Peace prize I’d lose faith in the Nobel Foundation entirely.