Controversial Republican frontrunner Donald Trump has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2016 for his “vigorous” ideology that counters radical Islam as a weapon of deterrence, according to media reports.
The ‘unlikely’ nomination of the 69-year-old hard-liner for the coveted peace prize highlights the vulnerability of the award that it is easily misused as a publicity tool for a politician whose goals would seem to many as antithetical to the Nobel committee’s.
According to the information available on the Nobel Prize website: “A nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize may be submitted by any person who meets the nomination criteria. A letter of invitation to submit is not required.
The names of the nominees and other information
about the nominations cannot be revealed until 50 years later.”