Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had gotten the ball rolling on this Monday by signaling he had nominated Trump, and nobody was about to disagree.
“I can guarantee you that Mauritania would never be opposed to President Trump receiving a Nobel Peace Prize,” said the president of that country, Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, during a lunch at the White House.
“Of course we are” supportive of Trump winning the prize, Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embaló said.
Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye called it “a deserved prize.”
“I think that President Trump deserves it for all the efforts that he’s worked on,” Gabonese President Brice Oligui Nguema said. Nguema cited a peace deal the Trump administration has brokered between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda.
Never mind that we have no idea how real that deal actually is, and that Trump has failed to end the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, as he promised to do upon taking office. And never mind that Trump, in the same event Wednesday, displayed a striking lack of familiarity with the African continent. (He didn’t even seem to know that English was the national language of Liberia, praising its president for his ability to speak it and asking where he studied.)
Never mind all that. Trump was pleased.
“I didn’t know I’d be treated this nicely,” Trump said. “This is great. We could do this all day long.”