First a plane, and now a Nobel Prize medal?

Made me think of  "My treasure"...line from "The Elephant Man."  Spoken by the creepy side show guy about the EM, whom he kidnapped and exploited for money.

Candy

Do you think that the Turd even realizes that handing someone a trophy doesn't make them the winner of that trophy?

Silly question. Of course he doesn't.

I'm recalling a CMA award show on TV, forget what year.  Rascal Flats was announced as the winner (whatever category).  Rascal Flats came on stage and made a big show of saying "We think this should go to Alabama, so we give this to Alabama!" holding up the trophy(s).  Alabama (or some of them) came on stage, clearly embarrassed by this.  At least Alabama didn't act a fool.  But it was embarrassing to watch.  Who wants a winner's trophy?

Candy

That's when you go up there and thank them for their kindness, but refuse the award, since you didn't actually win.  The gesture of being willing to give up the award speaks volumes.....as long as it is done in good taste. 

It is kind of pissing in the face of those who awarded it, though. Like "I know better than you who should get this."

I really hate it when award recipients use the ceremonies as an opportunity to pull some type of stunt. The progenitor of all that was, if memory serves, something like Marlon Brando receiving an Academy Award and somebody named Spotted Dove Teepee Tipper accepted the award for him and gave a speech about how mistreated Native Americans were yada yada. Out of place and inappropriate.

Actually, I think her name was Sacheen Littlefeather ..? Too lazy to look it up.

The Nobel Prize committee just put out a press release saying that Trump isn't the Nobel Prize winner even if he takes the trophy and shoves it up his butt.

Of course, they said it a little less bluntly than that. But it's interesting that the rebuke came so quickly.

Yup.....Trump can take the medal and put in on his mantle, or wherever he puts his "trophies", but the Nobel Foundation had previously stated that the winner is the winner, and that won't change.  Machado is the Peace Prize recipient, whatever she does with the medal is up to her.  Giving it to the meglomaniac in hopes of getting his support, is her perrogative.  Feed the ego and see what she can get.  

I'll give him my little league baseball trophy if he promises not to invade Greenland.    It's not made of gold but it looks like it.     Whadaya say, Donny?

Really dude? I find your purposeful bastardization of her name to be rude, inappropriate, and a bit racist. Also, coming from you pretty shocking. You usually seem to be pretty firmly against racism and marginalization of minority groups. I was quite surprised to read this from you. 

She was asked by Brando to respectfully decline the award on his behalf. She took probably 30 seconds of time to call attention to what they saw as mistreatment of American Indians by the film industry, and to protest the events of The Battle Of Wounded Knee. 

If someone took a moment at a current award show to call attention to the abuses of the Trump administration would you yada yada it and call it inappropriate? 

As I said, that was an inappropriate place and time for a political statement. The topic was highly sensitive at the time and if memory serves, this was concurrent with the Wounded Knee protests. I doubt that ANYONE was watching the Academy Awards in order to see people make political/protest statements.

You might not think so, but I consider America's treatment of native peoples shameful and a black mark on our history. And they haven't been recompensed for what has been stolen from them (except by casino revenue).

That said, an entertainment show was absolutely not the place for that. And to answer your question, yes, I would strongly object if an award winner took the opportunity to speak criticism of the Orange Asshole. There's a time and place for everything, and the televised Awards are, as most TV entertainment, a way for people to escape from the stresses of daily life. No matter what the plight of the Sioux may have been, that wasn't the venue to discuss it.

And just so you know, one of my favorite books of all time is "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee," one of my favorite films was "Into the West," Part 6 of which has a heartbreaking and accurate depiction of Wounded Knee, and I've visited the site and gone on a tour guided by a full-blooded member of the Lakota Sioux. So maybe you can tell where my sympathies lie.