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2naSalit

(96,523 posts)
2. I'd like to see him win this carnival ride...
Sun Mar 2, 2025, 10:36 AM
Mar 2

Except this is already our reality thanks to him.




Ocelot II

(124,349 posts)
4. Trump's "prize" is that he gets to reign in Hell rather than serve in Heaven.
Sun Mar 2, 2025, 10:43 AM
Mar 2

He's Milton's Satan, without the elegance:

Farewell happy Fields
Where Joy for ever dwells: Hail horrors, hail
Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell
Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings
A mind not to be chang’d by Place or Time.
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n…
Here we may reign secure, and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav’n.


It's really all about injured ego. In A Preface to Paradise Lost, C.S. Lewis said: "No one had in fact done anything to Satan; he was not hungry, nor over-tasked, nor removed from his place, nor shunned, nor hated—he only thought himself impaired. In the midst of a world of light and love of song and feast and dance, he could find nothing to think of more interesting than his own prestige." Trump wants the Nobel Peace Prize, not only because it's a big deal in general, but especially because Obama got it. But he'll have to be satisfied with reigning (for only a short time, I hope) in the Hell of his own making.

LiberalArkie

(17,999 posts)
11. Well, he always got awards and trophies as a kid.
Sun Mar 2, 2025, 11:12 AM
Mar 2

Well, they were not participation awards as he never really went, always had someone else go instead of him. You know, being wealthy and ll and getting sweaty and smelly was not something he was raised to be. But he did have his name on them anyway.

EndlessWire

(7,733 posts)
13. Speaking of prizes
Sun Mar 2, 2025, 01:21 PM
Mar 2

What are all those awards behind his WH desk on that mantel? Are those his golf trophies? What are those?

LetMyPeopleVote

(162,029 posts)
14. Donald Trump thought extorting Ukraine again for Putin would earn him a Nobel peace prize.
Sun Mar 2, 2025, 02:35 PM
Mar 2

trump is extremely jealous of President Obama for getting the Nobel Peace Price and really wants one. trump's assholes have nominated trump for this price numerous times. trump thought that if he forced Zelenskyy to give Putin everything Putin wanted, then the Peace Prize was his.



Donald Trump thought extorting Ukraine again for Putin would earn him a Nobel peace prize. The Rapist the felon and the coup plotter who got people killed, cheated on every wife, lies to our faces and staged an assassination and got more people killed. Who also lied about a deadly virus getting THOUSANDS killed thinks he deserves a Nobel Peace prize. Let that sink in.

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