Jon Paul: A couple questions for the Nobel Peace Prize committee

To The Daily Sun,

Before they award the Nobel peace prize to King Donald Trump, I just have a couple of questions for the committee.

When Trump was running for president, didn’t he state he was going to be a “president of peace?" How does: militarily supporting Israel in its ethnic cleansing of Gaza; starting a war with Venezuela; declaring an economic war on the world; bombing Iran; getting played by Vladimir Putin on bogus peace talks with Ukraine; restarting a nuclear arms race with Russia and now sending troops to Nigeria, make him even remotely qualified to receive a Nobel Peace prize? Trump claims that he now, all of a sudden, wants to defend Christians being persecuted in Nigeria with U.S. soldiers, a conflict that’s been going on since 1940. If he was so concerned about Nigerian Christians, then why didn’t he address it in his first term or give any of them protective status to allow them to immigrate to the USA? And why hasn’t he attempted to save Christians being persecuted in other African countries, such as Sudan, Congo, Mozambique, Mali, Burkina Faso, Somalia, Eritrea or Niger? I think the only reason he has any interest in Nigeria is because it has the most untapped oil and natural gas reserves in the world.

It's either that, or he really is trying to buy his way into heaven. 

Jon Paul

Alton Bay