I did some research on Nobel Peace Prize nominations
There was obviously a lot of talk about Captain Combover being recommended for a Nobel Peace Prize, but I wasn't sure whether such recommendations would even be accepted, much less considered, by the Nobel Peace Prize committee.
Other Nobels (physics, chemistry, medicine, etc.) are awarded by committees in Sweden, and they have very strict criteria for who can and cannot submit a nomination. I learned this when a quack named Hammesfahr started showing up on right-wing news outlets claiming he could cure Terri Shiavo, a women in a persistent vegetative state who'd become the focus of a political storm over whether life support should be terminated.
The case was a serious tragedy (and Charles Pierce's Idiot America has a great chapter discussing the whole thing), but the Hammesfahr thing was mildly amusing because, supposedly, his congressional representative had nominated him for a "Nobel Peace Prize in Medicine." That this would be like winning an Olympic figure skating gold medal in the 100 meter backstroke never crossed the mind of anyone interviewing him, but it was soon revealed that nominations from US congressional reps don't fulfill the criteria - meaning Himmelfarb's "nomination" was meaningless.
Anyway - I wasn't sure about Nobel Peace Prizes, which are awarded in Norway rather than Sweden. And I was surprised at what I learned.
Turns out Old Colostomy's nomination might have been considered acceptable - and by "acceptable," I mean "submitted by someone who fulfills the criteria," not "it's acceptable that the orange windbag was being considered for this award."
You can find the criteria here: https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/peace/
Nominations can be accepted by people who fulfill one of seven criteria. The first of these is "members of national assemblies and national governments (cabinet members/ministers) of sovereign states as well as current heads of state."
That means any of the organisms in the House or Senate who've merged with Trump's body the way a male anglerfish merges with a female of the same species could have sent in a letter nominating him, and it would have been seen as fulfilling the criteria.
The fifth criterion is "university professors, professors emeriti and associate professors of history, social sciences, law, philosophy, theology, and religion; university rectors and university directors (or their equivalents); directors of peace research institutes and foreign policy institutes." It doesn't specify Norwegian academics. It doesn't even specify academics at accredited institutions. So a right-wing religion professor at some place like Hillsdale could have submitted a nomination, and that would be considered to fulfill the criteria.
Again - I'm not trying to add legitimacy to any such nominations. Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize the way he deserves a Bessie Award for his dancing. The concept is absurd. But it turns out such nominations might, indeed, have met the rules at a bare minimum.
Lists of nominees who didn't get the award during a given year are kept secret for 50 years, so if the shaved orangutan was nominated this year, we won't know until 2075.
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And bonus points 
for mentioning the Bessie award specifically for dancing. this NYC dance person has been to a lot of those annual ceremonies. 😃
