By BRIANNA
CARNEGIE
Staff Writer
On Monday April 30, the president of South Korea, Moon Jae-in, has changed his opinions about President Trump from what he thought of him several months ago. The president of South Korea used to believe that Trump was just as dangerous as the North Korean president, Kim Jong-Un. However, now that he has helped start the peace process between North and South Korea, so Moon Jae-in now believes that Trump should win a Nobel Peace Prize.
In my opinion, just because someone is helping start a peace process between two countries that have been fighting against one another for many years, doesn’t automatically mean we excuse all of the other negative things that the person throughout their life has done. A person wins the Nobel Peace Prize for doing multiple great things for the world throughout their life, not just for one positive thing.
In order for a person to be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize and the nomination be valid, the person that nominates them has to fall within one of the eight categories. For example, someone from a member of a national assembly and national government (cabinet members/ministers) of a sovereign state and a current head of state would have to nominate Trump. However, I have a feeling that with the amount of people that have left his cabinet in the past two months, I don’t think anyone wants to nominate him.
President Trump has also been involved in many scandals throughout his whole career and is repeatedly getting involved in scandals that continue to shape his reputation to this day. I want to know what had to go through Moon Jae-in’s head to make him decide that Trump would be a good choice to consider for this type of nomination.
The president of South Korea could have picked anyone else in the whole world to consider to be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
The president of South Korea put all of his eggs into one basket and bet on the fact that Trump should win a Nobel Peace Prize because he’s starting a possible “peace process” between North and South Korea.
The president of South Korea is clearly not aware of all the controversies that President Trump has been involved in and continues to get involved in. For example, the president recently got caught lying (thanks to his lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani) about his statement saying that he had no knowledge of paying off this actress Stephanie Clifford who performs with the stage name Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about the fact that they had an affair while he’s still married to his current wife Melania Trump.
I believe that the president of South Korea should sit down and take a minute to really think about his decision of wanting to nominate Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize before sending in that recommendation letter.
