'Award it to yourself!' Jon Stewart mocks Trump's 'fragility' over his Nobel Prize demands

Ever since announcing his "ceasefire" between Israel and Iran (which was almost immediately followed by the two countries carrying out more strikes against each other), President Donald Trump expressed his desire to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Comedian and Daily Show host Jon Stewart sarcastically argued that it may actually not be a bad idea.

According to the Daily Beast, Stewart said in a recent episode of his podcast that the gravitas normally associated with the Nobel Peace Prize has long been stripped away, pointing out that the Nobel committee once awarded the prize to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (who masterminded the bombing campaign of Cambodia that killed as many as 150,000 people). He also suggested that Trump may be able to end-run the Nobel committee if he doesn't win the Peace Prize, and hold his own ceremony at the Kennedy Center given that he appointed himself chairman of the institution.

“Kissinger got it. Why not?” Stewart said Thursday. “Whoever’s got the bombs, give him the prize."

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“What the f--- does it even matter, the idea that winning that somehow means anything at this point?” he continued. “Why doesn’t he just make his own? He does his own meme coin. Make his own, do the Trump Peace Prize, award it to yourself, and then have it for the rest of the time.”

“‘The Trump Prize will be given to whoever it was that did the most towards world peace,’” Stewart added, before doing his own Trump impersonation. “‘And it turns out it’s me! Oh my God!’”

Stewart also opined that "it shouldn’t be that hard to not be so defensive and angry all the time" if all of Trump's stated accomplishments were real. He continued by saying: “Everything that is so difficult about this administration, just on display, in the moment—even actions that it might take that can be successful are fraught with his fragility at all times.”

Trump has been uniquely fixated on the Nobel Peace Prize, telling reporters on the tarmac in New Jersey this week that he should win the prize due to his work with India and Pakistan and in the Middle East. He lamented, however, that "they only give it to liberals."

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