The president, Donald Trump, shared this week on the social network Twitter a one-minute video that could imply that he has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, something that is not true.
The video highlights the values Trump has supposedly upheld during his presidency, including freedom, justice, law and order, and world peace.
In mentioning the latter, the video shows a meeting on September 15 between Trump, the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the foreign ministers of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) at the White House and the image is superimposed of a Nobel Prize medal.
On that day, Trump hosted the signing of agreements between Israel, Bahrain and the UAE that normalize diplomatic relations and establish economic ties between the last three, and noted that “after decades of division and conflict, the dawn of a new Middle East ”.
The accords were the first between Israel and Arab states since 1994, but have been criticized for leaving out other powers in the region, notably Palestine, which opposes Middle Eastern nations to recognize Israel as long as their territorial conflicts continue. .
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Nominated, but not awarded
Why does Trump's video show a picture of the Nobel Prize?
It is not clear, but the truth is that to date, Trump has not won the award in any of his six categories: physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, economics and peace.
He has been nominated for the latter, precisely for facilitating the agreement between Israel and the UAE.
Screenshot of the Trump administration promotional video that uses an image of the Nobel Prize medal to praise the president.
The video was suspended from Twitter over a copyright claim.
In her reaction to Trump's nomination for the 2021 award, the White House press secretary highlighted that the rapprochement between Israel and the UAE was "the most significant step towards peace in the Middle East in more than a quarter of century".
In 2018, the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the prize, revealed that it had discovered a false nomination in favor of Trump that year and another in 2017 by people unfit to apply.
Wrong medal
Something else that stands out from the video that Trump tweeted and that accumulates close to 10 million views was the image of the medal itself, since it is not actually the Nobel Peace Prize.
The Nobel Peace medal is different from those awarded in the rest of the categories.
As the official website of the Nobel Prize explains, the Peace Medal shows Alfred Nobel in a slightly different pose and on its reverse are three men forming a brotherly bond.
The one shown in the Trump video is the face of the medal given to the laureates in the other categories.
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Since 1901, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to a total of 107 individuals and 28 organizations.
Many others, from Gandhi to Stalin, Hitler and Mujssolini, have been nominated without success.
Other national leaders, including former President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Juan and Eva Perón of Argentina, were also once nominated.
In the United States, four presidents have received this award: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama.
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