'Grow up': Mike Johnson brutally mocked over 'embarrassing' Nobel Prize move

Onlookers ripped Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Tuesday after he agreed to join Speaker of the Israeli Knesset Amir Ohana in nominating President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Johnson said during a press conference that he was going to work with Ohana to "rally support from Speakers and Presidents around the world" to nominate Trump for the prize. The announcement came on the same day that the administration announced it struck another alleged drug boat off the coast of Venezuela, the sixth such strike since Trump took office.

"No one has ever deserved it more, and that is an objective fact," Johnson said.

Political observers and analysts reacted to Johnson's comments on social media.

"Instead of working to get the government open and pay our troops and air traffic controllers and helping his constituents keep their health plans, Mike Johnson has been tasked with helping Trump get the Nobel next year," podcaster Allison Gill, host of "Mueller, She Wrote," posted on Bluesky.

"That is just embarrassing," writer Kenneth Monusama posted on X.

"Grow up," Professor Victoria L. Johnson posted on X.

"The sycophancy and bootlicking is unbelievable," legal analyst Barry Markson posted on X. "Johnson hasn’t governed or even opened the House but he has time to kiss Trump’s butt. You know what no one who ever won the Nobel Peace Prize did? This. They never campaigned and begged. Pathetic."

"Weak," political pundit Mark Bland posted on X. "It was over when he named it the War Department. His own doing. Foolish. Now you're worried about an award for a man who can't lead his nation and negotiate to reopen the government."

"If you turn masked thugs loose on your own country and murder suspected drug traffickers, you are not eligible for a peace prize," journalist Bob Dalton posted on X.