Proving once again that satire is no longer possible in the Age of Trump, a group of House Republicans has formally nominated Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize because of his role in solving the North Korean nuclear problem.

The fact that the North Korean “nuclear problem” has not been “solved” did not seem to faze the 18 very conservative Congressional supporters who endorsed the idea.

Rep. Luke Messer, R-Ind., made the suggestion in a letter Wednesday sent to members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

Granted the rules for nominating someone for a peace prize are relatively loose, but come on!

Trump is the same guy who just recently ordered American bombing in Syria.

Trump is the same guy who wants to back out of the Iran nuclear agreement.

Trump is the same guy who wants to keep Muslims out of the country.

Trump is the same guy who called Haiti and African countries “shitholes.”

Trump is the same guy who wants more American nuclear weapons.

If a lasting peace can be brought to the Korean peninsula and North Korea gives up it nuclear weapons, then yes, Trump may be worthy of having bumbled and stumbled his way into receiving the prestigious award.

But anyone who knows a thing or two about North Korean understands how remote is such a possibility.

“The United States’ diplomatic goal – the denuclearization of North Korea in the near future – is far beyond what is realistically achievable,” warns James Acton of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In a worst-case scenario, according to Acton, a failed negotiation could even act as “prelude to war” as tensions would invariably escalate in the aftermath.

Not only is talk of Trump and Nobel Peace Prize in the same sentence way premature, it is also ludicrous.

Perhaps all this buzz of Trump receiving the Nobel Peace Prize has something to do with his predecessor receiving the prize his first year in office. Ya think?

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