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In It to Win It

(12,374 posts)
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 09:09 AM Jan 6

Machado says she wants to give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize

Hannity: Did you at any point offered to give him the Nobel peace prize?

Machado: It hasn’t happened yet. We want to give it to him. Share it with him.

Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2026-01-06T02:43:42.058Z
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Machado says she wants to give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize (Original Post) In It to Win It Jan 6 OP
Bending the Knee Deep State Witch Jan 6 #1
Or just not be declaired a "narco-terrorist" get the red out Jan 6 #5
... relinqueshing dignity and ethics. She'll be a star witness at Maduro's "trial". As for the sexual favor ... marble falls Jan 6 #7
She's not bending the knee...she's a right wing hack to begin with Prairie Gates Jan 6 #12
Trmp? Share? Good luck lady. spanone Jan 6 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author spanone Jan 6 #3
Machado practically works for Exxon - the Nobel committee fucked up. dalton99a Jan 6 #4
... SheltieLover Jan 6 #6
She's trying to buy the Venezuelan presidency, the Nobel committee should rescind her Peace Prize. sop Jan 6 #8
The committee screwed up giving it to her. sinkingfeeling Jan 6 #9
So the Nobel Prizes can be just passed around? markodochartaigh Jan 6 #10
Dr. Trump should get that one also dalton99a Jan 6 #11
It can't. See posts below. Ocelot II Jan 6 #18
I'm sorry. markodochartaigh Jan 6 #22
trump is a sore loser, and this lady is having to kiss up to trump LetMyPeopleVote Jan 6 #13
The committee Rebl2 Jan 6 #14
The award isn't revocable according to the NPP's rules. Ocelot II Jan 6 #16
Well Rebl2 Jan 6 #17
She can't. She can share the prize money if she wants to, but according to the NPP rules, Ocelot II Jan 6 #15
Although if Donny got that medal in his grabby little hands, tanyev Jan 6 #19
Puts me to mind of TACO's gushing over the Purple Heart a veteran gave him during his first regime. ... marble falls Jan 6 #20
Too bad... 2naSalit Jan 6 #21
Nobel Committee Says Peace Prize Cannot Be Transferred After Machado Says She Wants to 'Share It' With Trump LetMyPeopleVote Friday #23
MaddowBlog-After Trump rant, Nobel Prize committee issues reminder: Honors are nontransferable LetMyPeopleVote Yesterday #24

Deep State Witch

(12,594 posts)
1. Bending the Knee
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 09:11 AM
Jan 6

Looks like she's going to bend the knee to get installed as President. Canks is probably going to ask her to fellate him, too.

marble falls

(71,151 posts)
7. ... relinqueshing dignity and ethics. She'll be a star witness at Maduro's "trial". As for the sexual favor ...
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 09:17 AM
Jan 6

... she's toooo old for Pedosident TACO.

Response to In It to Win It (Original post)

sop

(17,552 posts)
8. She's trying to buy the Venezuelan presidency, the Nobel committee should rescind her Peace Prize.
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 09:21 AM
Jan 6

Rebl2

(17,428 posts)
14. The committee
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 10:26 AM
Jan 6

that decides who gets the Noble Peace Prize should revoke the prize they gave her just for saying she wants to give her prize to trumpy.

Ocelot II

(129,232 posts)
16. The award isn't revocable according to the NPP's rules.
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 10:36 AM
Jan 6

Once you've got it you've got it and you're stuck with it even if you try to give it back, and the committee can't take it back either.

Ocelot II

(129,232 posts)
15. She can't. She can share the prize money if she wants to, but according to the NPP rules,
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 10:30 AM
Jan 6

once the prize itself is awarded it can't be revoked, returned or shared with someone else. Even in the few cases where a recipient has declined it (Lê Đức Thọ, for example), it's still on the books as having been awarded to him. It's not transferrable. Machado can't give it back and she can't share it because it's awarded on the basis of the actions of a particular individual. The committee could have awarded it to Machado and Trump jointly if they thought Trump deserved some of the credit for Machado's efforts in Venezuela up to 2/1/25, but obviously they didn't.

By the way, the deadline for the 2026 NPP is midnight on January 31, so Trump had better get busy doing a whole lot more peace in the next few weeks.

tanyev

(48,696 posts)
19. Although if Donny got that medal in his grabby little hands,
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 12:22 PM
Jan 6

he’d sure enough get his trophy guy to create a big plaque insisting that it was awarded to him. Regardless of what the official Nobel records say.

marble falls

(71,151 posts)
20. Puts me to mind of TACO's gushing over the Purple Heart a veteran gave him during his first regime. ...
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 01:12 PM
Jan 6

... "I always wanted the Purple Heart, but this was much easier."

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2naSalit

(100,176 posts)
21. Too bad...
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 02:49 PM
Jan 6

The committee can't take it back. What a travesty, makes all the others near worthless, like the enshitification of the Medal of freedom and now the Kennedy Center honors, worthless once the orange shitbag gets involved. This is why the NYC upper crust never let him be one of them, he sucks like outhouse fumes.

LetMyPeopleVote

(175,340 posts)
23. Nobel Committee Says Peace Prize Cannot Be Transferred After Machado Says She Wants to 'Share It' With Trump
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 04:03 PM
Friday

This award is not transferable



https://www.latintimes.com/nobel-committee-says-peace-prize-cannot-transferred-after-machado-says-she-wants-share-it-trump-593332

The Norwegian Nobel Institute said that a Nobel Peace Prize cannot be transferred or shared with another person, responding to comments by Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who said she wanted to "share" her 2025 Nobel Peace Prize with U.S. President Donald Trump.

"A Nobel Prize cannot be revoked nor transferred to others. Once the laureate or laureates are announced, the decision is final," said Erik Aasheim, a spokesperson for the Norwegian Nobel Institute, which serves as the secretariat for the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Aasheim added that while the prize itself is not transferable, laureates are free to dispose of the prize money as they see fit.

The statement followed remarks by Machado during a Fox News interview on Monday, in which she praised Trump's actions that led to the capture of Venezuela's former president, Nicolás Maduro, and said that "because this is the prize of the Venezuelan people, certainly we want to give it to him and share it with him." Machado said she had not spoken directly with Trump since October, when she dedicated the award to him after it was announced.

LetMyPeopleVote

(175,340 posts)
24. MaddowBlog-After Trump rant, Nobel Prize committee issues reminder: Honors are nontransferable
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 09:35 AM
Yesterday

One observer summarized the circumstances this way: “It’s hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become.”



https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/after-trump-rant-nobel-prize-committee-issues-reminder-honors-are-non-transferable

But those weren’t his only provocative thoughts on the subject. A day earlier, the Republican sat down with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, and the discussion turned to Machado. Trump said that he’d heard Machado — who’s eager to lead her home country and who’s taken steps to curry favor with the Republican administration — wants to give him the prize, and that it would be “a great honor.”

It was at that point that the officials responsible for the award apparently felt the need to issue a clarification of sorts. The Associated Press reported:

The organization that oversees the Nobel Peace Prize is throwing cold water on talk of Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado giving her recent award to President Donald Trump.

Once the Nobel Peace Prize is announced, it can’t be revoked, transferred or shared with others, the Norwegian Nobel Institute said in a short statement on Friday.


“The decision is final and stands for all time,” the institute explained in a written statement.

It was, as best as I can tell, the first time in the 125-year history of the award that the Nobel Prize committee found it necessary to issue such a clarification. It also led The Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum to note, summarizing the circumstances, “It’s hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become.”
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