Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawcer with his Great American Show Midday Update for Friday, October 10th. Happy Friday, folks.

Despite his role in ending a whopping eight war since taking office in just a short eight months,

President Donald Trump did not win the Nobel Peace Prize and the head of the Nobel Committee

offered a pathetic justification for the decision. Instead, the Committee Awarded Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Machado

with the prize due to her, quote, tireless work for promoting democratic rights

for the people of Venezuela and her struggle to achieve just a peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

When asked about President Trump,

the Nobel chair, suggested that President Trump

was too much of an attention seeker

and thus unworthy of the prize.

Quote, in the long history of the Nobel Peace Prize,

I think this committee has seen many types of campaigns,

media tensions.

We receive thousands and thousands of letters

every year of people wanting to say what

for them leads to peace. This committee sits with a room filled of portraits and a room that is filled

of both courage and integrity, so we base only our decision on the work and the will of Alfred Noble.

In other words, the committee denied President Trump simply due to his personality. Seems

pretty pathetic to me. Stephen Chung, the President Trump's fiery communications director,

responded bluntly and correctly to the insane decision. Quote, the Nobel Committee proved they

place politics over peace. Now, while Cornita Machado is an incredible woman who has been a brave warrior in a fight

against communism and the tyrant of Nicholas Maduro was stolen multiple elections in Venezuela,

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