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http://bestpensintheworld.com/lamy-cp1-fountain-pen/ History will record Oct. 10, 2025, as the day the latest rigged election.

You see, the Norwegian Nobel Committee snubbed one of the gentlest souls ever to wage a culture war: President Donald J. Trump.

The man wanted peace. He said it. Often. Loudly. He even nominated himself. That alone takes humility.

Yet when the Nobel Committee met, they ignored this modern Gandhi and gave the prize to María Corina Machado — a Venezuelan opposition activist who, according to the press release, “risked her freedom for democracy.”

Which is fine, I guess, but can she draw a crowd in Dayton? And Maria sounds like a girl’s name; they don’t give ’em to chicks, right?

The backlash came fast. MAGA influencers melted down online like teenagers denied prom queen.

Laura Loomer fumed, “What an absolute joke. Everyone knows President Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. More affirmative action nonsense.”

Another account thundered: “Some random person that nobody knows just won the Nobel Peace Prize. THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE IS A JOKE.”

Hard to argue. Because if Trump can’t win a peace prize, who can?

This is a man who brokered calm in places that barely existed on maps, who once stopped a war by saying he did. A man who united the country, albeit briefly, in disbelief.

Even Vladimir Putin weighed in, calling the Nobel’s decision a “disgrace.” And if there’s one thing Putin knows, it’s peace through strength, or at least peace through drone.

Trump himself predicted this tragedy. “They will never give me a Nobel Peace Prize,” he told supporters in February. “It’s too bad. I deserve it.” It was less prophecy than martyrdom.

When the snub became official, his communications director, Steven Cheung, issued the statement of the year: “He has the heart of a humanitarian, and there will never be anyone like him who can move mountains with the sheer force of his will.”

You almost expect angels to hum “YMCA.”

Meanwhile, the actual winner, Machado, has spent years facing arrest, exile, and threats for speaking out against Venezuela’s dictatorship.

Admirable, sure, but she clearly failed to see the bigger picture: you can’t get peace by being peaceful. You get peace by demanding it, tweeting about it, and occasionally deploying the National Guard.

Georgia congressman Buddy Carter has proposed a sensible fix: a resolution to give Trump an American Peace Prize. Because why should Norwegians decide what peace means to us? They have fjords. We have Florida.

And when that great day comes, I hope Trump accepts his prize the only way he knows how — by taking credit for inventing it, then taking an escalator down to accept it.

Because if wanting the world to worship you disqualifies you from a peace prize, then maybe peace was overrated all along.