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Plus of course, Trump is betraying his spectacular ignorance of how the Nobel Prize Committee works. It may be based in Norway, but it is a completely independent body, and the government of Norway has no influence whatsoever over who receives any Nobel prize. His craving for the prize was only ever motivated by the fact that Obama was previously awarded the prize (without begging pathetically for it) anyway.

After Machado gave her prize to Trump, after being told that she could not do that, I understand that the Nobel Committee has now pronounced that both Machado & Trump will never be eligible for any future prize. Which is nice.

It's a pity Dynamite Boy's "Peace Prizes" can't be withdrawn.

It's a pity we can't find the Lee Oswald we need.

Abernathy wrote: ↑Mon Jan 19, 2026 2:12 pm Plus of course, Trump is betraying his spectacular ignorance of how the Nobel Prize Committee works. It may be based in Norway, but it is a completely independent body, and the government of Norway has no influence whatsoever over who receives any Nobel prize.

The Norwegian PM attempted to explain this to Trump but to no avail.
I've leaned towards Trump just playing crazy to flood the zone and firehose or whatever its called. But he's now the Colditz POW who sent himself mad from acting it out so he could be repatriated.

The text exchange between Trump and the Norwegian PM has now been released in full.

Just. Make. It. Stop.

Not even stroppy teenager standard.

Shouldn't this be starting to hurt Nigel Farage?

Oboogie wrote: ↑Mon Jan 19, 2026 2:00 pm So to punish Norway, he's going to invade Greenland? Does he think Norway is part of Denmark or vice-versa?

He also thinks that "political asylum" only applies to people released from what used to be called "lunatic asylums", so it's likely he does think Norway and Denmark are the same.

How does Fox News sane wash this? Just hope that none of their viewers have heard about it?

Even Farage is backing away from this - in public, at least:

What the flying fuck? The real issue is Diego Garcia? Which we've just negotiated a 100 year lease on?

Jenrick, Zahawi, Kruger and Rosindell are happy to sign up with this because they like the way Farage talks about immigrants?!

Samanfur wrote: ↑Mon Jan 19, 2026 3:55 pm The text exchange between Trump and the Norwegian PM has now been released in full.

He's assuming that the Norwegian government dictates who the Nobel committee award prizes to because that's what he would do if the committee was in the USA.

Samanfur wrote: ↑Mon Jan 19, 2026 3:55 pm The text exchange between Trump and the Norwegian PM has now been released in full.

Apparently he asks for the Nobel peace prize every time he and the Norwegian PM meet. And every time, the PM explains the govt. have no say.

It could be he simply doesn’t believe it because he would interfere if it were him. But this repeated questioning/demanding of something and no retention of information as to why it can’t happen is also a sign of Alzheimer’s.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Mon Jan 19, 2026 4:45 pm Not even stroppy teenager standard.

Shouldn't this be starting to hurt Nigel Farage?

No. Farage is that cockroach that can survive a nuclear blast.

Samanfur wrote: ↑Mon Jan 19, 2026 10:36 am It's all Norway's fault, for not giving him the Nobel Peace Prize:

Remember back in 2016 we had the "White House Day Care Centre" jab? FF>> 10 years on and nothing has changed on that front.

Boiler wrote: ↑Mon Jan 19, 2026 5:39 pm
No. Farage is that cockroach that can survive a nuclear blast.

Glad that he's recovered from his sickness that stopped him being interviewed yesterday.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Mon Jan 19, 2026 6:04 pm

Boiler wrote: ↑Mon Jan 19, 2026 5:39 pm
No. Farage is that cockroach that can survive a nuclear blast.

Glad that he's recovered from his sickness that stopped him being interviewed yesterday.

Yep, by an astonishing coincidence, it cleared up the moment Laura Kuenssberg came off air.

Is he showing for PMQs?

Farage is looking rough lately. Smoking 60 a day to troll the health Nazi do-gooders isn't so big and clever in your 60s.

Interesting article on how Hispanic voters are souring on Trump.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clym85ev64lo

When one-time Democrat Sam Negron headed to the polls to cast a ballot for Donald Trump in 2024, he did so with one thing on his mind above all - the economy.

"I didn't like paying $7 for eggs," said Negron, a Pennsylvania state constable in the majority-Latino city of Allentown. "But basically it was all his talking points… making the US a strong country again."

Negron, who switched to the Republican Party in 2019 after decades as a Democrat, was not alone.

When Trump pulled off a decisive electoral victory in 2024, he did so with the backing of millions of Latino voters helping to propel him over the finish line.

That election saw Trump receive a higher percentage of the Latino vote than any other Republican in US history, with 46% of the varied electorate casting their ballot in his favour.

But one year into his first term, cracks in that support have begun to emerge.

New polling from CBS News, the BBC's US partner, shows that support among US Latinos for Trump has fallen to 38%, a marked decline from a high of 49% in early February following his return to the White House.

The Latino vote is both vast and diverse, encompassing communities of varied ancestries, economic power and relative size.

Collectively, however, they form the largest non-white voting bloc in the country, totalling over 36 million people.

Data shows that Trump's gains among these voters in 2024 was, to a large degree, a result of their dissatisfaction with the economy in the waning years of the Biden administration.

One poll, from Pew, suggested that 93% of Latinos who cast their votes for Trump rated the economy as their primary issue, with violent crime and immigration trailing far behind.

Those same concerns may now be coming back to haunt Trump.

Data from the new CBS poll shows that a significant majority of Latinos - 61% - disapprove of Trump's handling of the economy, while 69% disapprove of his handling of inflation. The vast majority said they judge the performance of the US economy through prices.