Trump is quite sore about not having been awarded a Nobel Prize himself https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1215435613203202048
Trump has repeatedly complained that the Nobel prize has been unfairly denied him
Trump lobbied the Japanese government to nominate him for a Nobel
Trump attempted to cheer up a Yazidi woman who suffered murder of all her family by noting that she got a Nobel Prize out of it
It seriously irks Trump that others have been awarded Nobel Prizes instead of him https://www.statnews.com/2017/11/13/white-house-nobel-ceremony/
Trump's certitude that he deserves the prize has never faded. https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/09/politics/trump-nobel-prize/index.html
Rather than argue with Trump that journalists do not receive Nobel prizes, maybe we should take the hint and agree that they do!

So congratulations to "Nobel Prize Winner" @Fahrenthold "Nobel Prize WInner" @maggieNYT - and of course the three Nobelists who reported Trump taxes
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