Category: Current Events

Our President and the Nobel Peace prize

It is well-known that Donald Trump would like to be awarded the Nobel Peace prize. It seems unlikely to me.

This from Newsweek:

The chances of President Donald Trump winning the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize are “quickly decreasing,” a major bookmaker has told Newsweek.”

The odds against Trump have worsened following America’s capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and the White House’s continued push to take over Greenland.

  

I am certainly not on the committee that decides the winner or privy to its deliberations. But I think the war crimes and killings might be factors in not winning.

For a peace prize I think our President might have settle for soccer’s FIFA Peace Prize

ICE shootings

A Minnesota women was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent. The agency claims it was in self-defense as the women was trying to run over the agent, the President said she was badly behaved and ran over the agent.

Publically available video does not seem to show that. So we have 3 different accounts of how this happened.

My first reaction was there needed to be an independent investigation since there may be other videos, witnesses and facts that were not immediately known. This could explain the discrepancies. However, this does not seem possible since the homeland security secretary is denying Minnesota authorities evidence.

Since there have been multiple shootings by ICE agents across the county and self-defense is sometimes claimed, I think all of these shootings should be investigated by Homeland Security as well as local authorities. Where Homeland Security and local authorities disagree an independent group is probably appropriate . How to choose this group would be a matter between Homeland Security and the local authorities.