Jon Decker says he's not surprized Trump did not win

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
John Dekker joins us now our White House correspondent. Were
you surprised that Donald Trump did not get the Nobel
Peace Prize?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
No, I wasn't surprised at JT. And let me tell
you why. And it's important to keep this in mind.
The deadline for this year's Nobel Peace Prize in terms
of nominations for twenty twenty five was February the first.
The president was sworn into office on January the twentieth,
and all of the peace initiatives that he's pursued during
the course of his first eight nine months in office

(00:29):
had really happened after that date that we're talking about
of February the first, So not surprising to me. There's
next year, and next year is an opportunity for the
president to end the war in Ukraine as well. So
not surprised. And the person who won this year, Maria
Cariina Machado, very deserving. I am familiar with her very
much because I'm a media fellow at the McCain Institute.

(00:52):
We just gave her in May a similar type of award.
She's a remarkable person and she is speaking peace and
democracy in her home country of Venezuela. So let's not
diminish what she's done and what she's doing to achieve
democracy for her people.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah, no doubt about it. I totally support her and
what her efforts are. But interesting, I did not realize
that the deadline for somebody to grab the award this
year was in February. So yeah, you're right, he was
just getting started in a second term. But wow, he
certainly he's qualified to win it now moving forward, And
you're right, there may be another conflict that he can

(01:27):
wrap up by the time they get the nominations in
for the next round. So I think some presidents have
actually won it after they left office, too. Correct.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Only one president has won it after he left office,
and that was Jimmy Carter. All the other presidents who've
won the Nobel Peace Prize have done so while they
served in office. Most recently, there was Barack Obama back
in two thousand and nine at the same point in
his presidency, and Barack Obama was very surprised when he
was announced as the winner of the two thousand and

(01:57):
nine Nobel Peace Prize because he acknowledged he really hadn't
done anything to deserve it, and so there's Barack Obama
and the Roosevelt Room at the White House is named
after two presidents with the last named Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt
and FDR. And hanging in that room is the Nobel
Peace Prize that was won by Teddy Roosevelt in the
early nineteen hundreds. Yeah, I think a little bit of

(02:19):
fact trivia for you.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
I don't think Barack Obama was the only one surprise
that he got that, because everybody probably thought the same thing.
And you know, I'll give him credit at least he had,
you know, the nerve to come out and you know, admit, hey,
I don't know why I'm getting this here, but yeah,
you're right about that for sure. Right, let's talk about
the current president, Donald Trump.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Wow, what are we going.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
To spend here? And he's getting ready to ask them
is it confirmed he's going to Egypt or is he
still working on this?

Speaker 2 (02:45):
That's what the president says. He says that he's departing
Washington for Egypt. That will be on Sunday. He'll arrive
on Monday, he'll sign the peace deal that was reached
earlier this week. Hopefully he'll also be on hand for
the return of those hostages, the twenty hostages Bayjamas, the
remains of twenty eight other individuals handed over by Hamas.
So indeed, the president looks like he's traveling to the region,

(03:08):
may also travel to Israel while he's in the region,
but that is something that the President has spoken of
as recently as yesterday in terms of his plans for
the next few days.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
So no bumps, right, and all of this so far,
we're moving forward, Mondays Mondays of the day that this
is all supposed to unfold. I know there's been a
lot of talking criticism about the number of people being
released from Israel back there, that it's a little imbalanced.
But you know, this was Netanyahuo's decision. The President said,
not mine. I do support him, but you know there's

(03:39):
been some American higher ups that say, look, we respect
his decision. We don't necessarily agree with it, but it
is what it is. So moving forward, the government in Gaza,
where are we thinking this is going? Who's going to
run the country.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
How's all this going to play a lot of unanswered
questions there. So first YEF to have get through phase
one of this peace deal. Phase one, return of those hostages,
release of those Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, and also
a ceasefire, and we're already seeing that. We're already seeing
the ceasefire take effect in Gaza, the Israeli military announcing

(04:17):
that earlier today. And then after that, then the difficult
part that you just reference takes place, and that is
what does the future of Gaza looks look like? Who
governs it? Does a mass say, okay, every one of
the members of the Hamas military are leaving Gaza. All
unanswered questions at this point.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
Very good, all right, maybe we'll learn more next week,
John Decker, and don't forget now you can get more.
John Decker on the iHeart Radio. I've just searched for
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Thank you, John, have a good weekend.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
Thanks j too.