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Scrivener7

(57,606 posts)
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 12:00 PM Sep 24

Mary Robinson (UN High Commissioner, frmr Irish President) labels Donald Trump 'stupid' and a 'bully'

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41711102.html
Former Irish president and UN high commissioner for human rights Mary Robinson has labelled Donald Trump “stupid” and a “bully” who is complicit in the famine and genocide in Gaza.
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“To have the leader of the United States say in the UN that this is stupid or chaotic, or the words he used is really heartbreaking, because we need to move in the other direction.”
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On questions around Mr Trump’s views on Gaza, she said: “It is a human-induced famine. Children are dying of malnutrition, and he is largely responsible because he's supporting prime minister Netanyahu.
"So the United States is complicit in this famine and unfolding genocide, and it's on his watch.”

On Mr Trump’s claims he “should get the Nobel Peace Prize” for having — he claims — ended several wars, she said: “If president Trump wants his Nobel Prize, all he has to do is stop prime minister Netanyahu from being such an extremist leader of his people for his own reasons.
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Mary Robinson (UN High Commissioner, frmr Irish President) labels Donald Trump 'stupid' and a 'bully' (Original Post) Scrivener7 Sep 24 OP
If the Nobel commisson EVER awards him anything, the value of their awards drops to zero immediately, Moostache Sep 24 #1
Fightin' Irish! ananda Sep 24 #2
The Nobel peace prize money should be given to people or organizations who will use it for good. Walleye Sep 24 #3

Moostache

(10,880 posts)
1. If the Nobel commisson EVER awards him anything, the value of their awards drops to zero immediately,
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 12:05 PM
Sep 24

There is no prestige in awards that can be manipulated or bullied into being awarded. They have no cachet, no value, no meaning when that happens. Trump is so shallow and sick in the head he can't seem to grasp that... but an award that is merit based and prestiguous cannot be bought because the second you give it a price, its value plummets in exact negative proportion.

Walleye

(43,028 posts)
3. The Nobel peace prize money should be given to people or organizations who will use it for good.
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 12:09 PM
Sep 24

Trump doesn’t even know how much money he has, and he never uses it for good things

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