Sarah Harte: Let's hope this year's Nobel Peace Prize isn't another 'what the hell'

If Donald Trump makes the shortlist, never mind wins, then we may as well promote a bull to head of customer service in a China shop

US president Donald Trump meets María Corina Machado in the Oval Office in January where she presented the president with her Nobel Peace Prize. The likely nomination of Donald Trump, a man who will go down in history as a promoter of global instability, a man who every day confuses diplomacy with revenge and dumps on international law, is farcical.

These days, political performance often resembles satire, presumably making it harder for satirists to satirise. 

Films like Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, ridiculing political and military authority while depicting a world where titles and credentials bear no relation to competence, lacks the same punch. When the American president depicts himself as Jesus, there are fewer taboos to skewer.