Via International Relations Professor Dan Drezner’s twitter feed:
So apparently the Trump administration unofficially asked Abe to submit the documents necessary to nominate the US president for the Nobel Peace Prize, per Asahi.トランプ氏をノーベル賞に推して…米国が安倍首相に依頼:朝日新聞デジタル https://t.co/e4JAVIeVQL
— Jesse Johnson (@jljzen) February 16, 2019
Jesse Johnson works for The Japan Times, “Japan’s largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper”; Asahi (technically Asahi Shimbun) is the second-largest of Japan’s five national newspapers.
Some observers had initially believed the US president may have confused Prime Minister Abe with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who has alos voiced support for a Trump Nobel Peace Prize. https://t.co/oFwwsHWMoa
— Jesse Johnson (@jljzen) February 17, 2019
FYI, @japantimes will be delving into this more deeply after @AbeShinzo's previously scheduled appearance before the Diet (parliament) budget committee tomorrow.
— Jesse Johnson (@jljzen) February 17, 2019
Hey, give it a shot. He's the one who seemed to believe that being handed a Purple Heart was equivalent to earning one (only "much easier").
— Ellen Kadin (@LNKDin) February 17, 2019
Nah, a piece of paper wouldn’t work… but if someone stamped an elaborate challenge-coin-style design on a chunk of brass the size of a small hubcap, and hung it from one of those massive silk curtain tie-backs that were popular when Reagan was in office…
— It's The System, Stupid ??️????? (@SaltPotatoes) February 17, 2019
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