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Eugene

(66,418 posts) Wed Sep 24, 2025, 09:07 PM Wednesday

BBC Reporter Calls BS on Trump's Demand for Nobel Prize in Scathing Fact-Check

Source: Mediaite

BBC Reporter Calls BS on Trump’s Demand for Nobel Prize in Scathing Fact-Check

Tommy Christopher
Sep 24th, 2025, 10:45 am

BBC Verify U.S. Correspondent Nick Beake called BS on President Donald Trump’s demand for a Nobel Prize as he performed a scathing fact-check on Trump’s United Nations speech.

President Trump spoke for nearly an hour to the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday in an address that was beset by technical issues and replete with Trump’s characteristic touches — including his frequent lobbying for a Nobel Peace Prize.

On Tuesday’s edition of BBC News at Six, Beake and anchor Sophie Raworth knocked down a raft of Trump claims, including an extra-emphatic rebuttal to the Nobel rant:

SOPHIE RAWORTH: Let’s start with London wants to go to Sharia law.

NICK BEAKE, BBC VERIFY: Yeah, that’s right Sophie, this was the startling claim made by President Trump today, part of his message that immigration is destroying European countries, including the UK.

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BBC Reporter Calls BS on Trump's Demand for Nobel Prize in Scathing Fact-Check (Original Post) Eugene Wednesday OP

Aw, to make the batshit old geezer happy, I mailed him a medal. usonian Wednesday #1

TY.. that was very Interesting from London.. Cha Wednesday #2

Found It... NPP will be announced on Oct 10th... Cha Wednesday #3

Couple of things usonian Wednesday #4

Wow... that's Awhile.. and TY for Cha Wednesday #5

The usual Wikipedia link problem is with parentheses muriel_volestrangler Thursday #6

Learn something every day usonian Thursday #7

I vote for Greta Thunberg. ananda Thursday #9

The value and honor of the Nobel Peace Prize will forever be diminished if presented to djt. Totally Tunsie Thursday #8

usonian

(20,872 posts)

1. Aw, to make the batshit old geezer happy, I mailed him a medal.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Sep 24, 2025, 09:17 PM

Wednesday

Cha

(314,617 posts)

2. TY.. that was very Interesting from London..

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Sep 24, 2025, 09:20 PM

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When is the Nobel Peace Prize going to be awarded this year?

Cha

(314,617 posts)

3. Found It... NPP will be announced on Oct 10th...

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Sep 24, 2025, 10:07 PM

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The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded in December, on the 10th of December, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death, while the winner will be announced in October on the 10th.

Google Search..

Link is Too Long.

usonian

(20,872 posts)

4. Couple of things

Reply to Cha (Reply #3)

Wed Sep 24, 2025, 10:13 PM

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Last edited Wed Sep 24, 2025, 11:16 PM - Edit history (1)

Per the committee, you don't get to know the list of nominees until 50 years AFTER the prize is awarded.

Second, A lot of links don't work with the DU software.
In that case.

Copy the link.
Select a word to make "linkable"
Click on the chain-link above the text box.
Paste the link into the little text area that pops up.

Wikipedia, in particular, has some bizarro links that flop here.

As for images, that's a textbook full of workarounds.
Some other time.

Happy DU'ing

Cha

(314,617 posts)

5. Wow... that's Awhile.. and TY for

Reply to usonian (Reply #4)

Wed Sep 24, 2025, 10:21 PM

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the instructions to make links smaller.

muriel_volestrangler

(104,833 posts)

6. The usual Wikipedia link problem is with parentheses

Reply to usonian (Reply #4)

Thu Sep 25, 2025, 04:19 AM

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The DU software can't cope with those directly in link URLs, and Wikipedia uses them for disambiguation.

So the way to fix it is to use " %28 " for " ( ", and " %29 " for " ) ". These mean the ASCII codes for the symbols (in hexadecimal).

So
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smith_(Labour_Party_leader)
doesn't work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smith_%28Labour_Party_leader%29
does.

usonian

(20,872 posts)

7. Learn something every day

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #6)

Thu Sep 25, 2025, 10:09 AM

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ananda

(33,342 posts)

9. I vote for Greta Thunberg.

Reply to Cha (Reply #3)

Thu Sep 25, 2025, 10:33 AM

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Totally Tunsie

(11,270 posts)

8. The value and honor of the Nobel Peace Prize will forever be diminished if presented to djt.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Thu Sep 25, 2025, 10:25 AM

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It will never carry the meaning and symbolism that it has today. The Nobel Committee will do a great disservice to the Prize and to the Committee itself if it makes this ultimate mistake in 15 days. It will never be respected again.

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