Cataloguer John Kraljevich was quoted in an article this week about a curious video tweeted by President Trump.
-Editor
Outgoing president Donald Trump tweeted out a video Monday night that had a Nobel Prize superimposed over it, though he's never won one.
The video didn't include the correct medal, either.
The clip tweeted by the president — who has so far refused to concede that he lost the 2020 election to President-elect Joe Biden — lauds him for "[standing] for America," among other things. The unexplained Nobel Prize appears toward the end of the minute-long video, after a title card that declared, "Trump stands for peace."
Journalists were quick to point out that though the medal appears in the clip, it is not something Trump has actually won.
Rare coin expert John Kraljevich took the criticism a step farther, noting that whoever edited the video used the wrong Nobel medal anyway.
"Professional medal guy here," he wrote. "I've actually catalogued/authenticated a Nobel Peace Prize before (it brought over a million bucks at auction). That's not even a Nobel Peace Prize. The medal depicted is awarded for physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, and literature. Idiot."
Look at the differences between the medals below (the one on the left is the Nobel Peace Prize):
For what it's worth, far-right Norwegian lawmaker Christian Tybring-Gjedde nominated Trump for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize in September.
For what it's worth, far-right Norwegian lawmaker Christian Tybring-Gjedde nominated Trump for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize in September.
To read the complete article, see:
Trump Falsely Suggests He's Won the Nobel Peace Prize – With the Wrong Medal
(https://www.thewrap.com/trump-video-nobel-prize/)
Wayne Homren, Editor
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