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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMachado to give Trump her Nobel Peace Prize?????? Next week????
Go to the Lawyers, Guns, and Money blog and read this comment:
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/trump-to-accept-the-nobel-peace-prize-from-maria-corina-machado
Is this true that Maria Corina Machado will present Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize?
JI7
(93,259 posts)GreenWave
(12,371 posts)spanone
(141,066 posts)there was a thread on this in DU.
Endlessmike56
(124 posts)She can give it to him but it wont mean diddly squat except to him and his cult.
lamp_shade
(15,378 posts)Walleye
(43,878 posts)Does he get the money too? Im sure thats what hes interested in.
Attilatheblond
(8,335 posts)That's why he is insatiable and has to keep destroying things/people/places. Those things remind him daily, possibly hourly, or even moment to moment, that HE IS A FAILURE & Daddy didn't love him. He is a black hole of infantile need and he will destroy everything that gets within his ever growing field of gravity.
We used to put people like him in institutions for their own safety and ours. But taking care of the insane doesn't turn enough profit, so TPTB said 'fuck that' and brainwashed enough people to think their taxes would go down if we left the insane on the streets.
allegorical oracle
(6,215 posts)they get. That's why he demeaned McCain. Trump prefers a) people who never enlisted in the military, and b) never got captured in battle.
Seriously believe that he more values what he's stolen than what he's earned.
Irish_Dem
(79,988 posts)The Kennedy Center is another example.
He doesn't understand respect is earned.
Hey Joe
(427 posts)His pathetic neediness and grasping for the fame and accolades of his betters, wether it
is a Purple Heart he did not earn, a Nobel Peace Prize he desperately wanted or attaching his name to the memorial of another president who he knows he will never measure up to.
He is a human incubus, a suckhole of greed and want who knows he will never measure up.
Irish_Dem
(79,988 posts)choie
(6,670 posts)For those who have.been extolling Machados virtues, is extortion a virtue? Shes just as power hungry as trump is. Vile.
Ocelot II
(129,232 posts)she can do it, but as far as the Nobel Committee is concerned she's still the recipient.
hlthe2b
(112,907 posts)transfer. It is so damned cringey that we have a pResident this damned petty and small.
boston bean
(36,874 posts)Ocelot II
(129,232 posts)Once it's awarded it's a done deal for all eternity. There was a huge shitstorm when it was awarded to Henry Kissinger, and if the committee could have revoked it they probably would have.
hlthe2b
(112,907 posts)She can give the money away and the medallion, if she chooses, but there is no recognition of transfer.
Tough luck, you pathetic orange POS...
Aren't we proud?
Ocelot II
(129,232 posts)though hed have to alter the medal or have a replica made that had his name on it and not hers. And I have no doubt that he would do that.
2naSalit
(100,176 posts)Probably a mistake in the first place. Have to say, I was disappointed that she got it.
Americanme
(383 posts)What a joke. How could it possibly mean anything to him, knowing he didn't earn it, doesn't deserve it. He is a joke.
3catwoman3
(28,643 posts)...for the gesture but insisted that he keep it. But not Trump, no way.
Doodley
(11,658 posts)Ocelot II
(129,232 posts)everyonematters
(4,028 posts)If it will get Trump to support her, what the hell.
sboatcar
(744 posts)Appeal to his vanity and delicate ego.
Its gross, but it works.
RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(1,886 posts)Trump's warmongering ass.
no_hypocrisy
(54,357 posts)Or TSF can ask if he can borrow it for a little while and not return it.
Justice
(7,247 posts)Perverse
TheProle
(3,908 posts)were it not so existentially dangerous
flvegan
(65,823 posts)What a fucking doofus.
allegorical oracle
(6,215 posts)underpants
(195,079 posts)Don't fall for it Maria. He'd take it and you'll get nothing
Youd have no real authenticity or support. Youd be lucky to see next Christmas. Maduros henchmen are still everywhere there.
pandr32
(13,818 posts)unblock
(55,954 posts)So you can buy a superbowl ring, cool show to people, but doesn't mean squat.
Sogo
(6,991 posts)but he'll accept it in his delusional mind and believe it to be real. It's only hardware to him, no meaning behind it.
SamKnause
(14,736 posts)It needs to be shoved up his evil ass !!!
RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(1,886 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(175,340 posts)This award is not transferable
Link to tweet
https://www.latintimes.com/nobel-committee-says-peace-prize-cannot-transferred-after-machado-says-she-wants-share-it-trump-593332
"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)One observer summarized the circumstances this way: Its hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become.
Link to tweet
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/after-trump-rant-nobel-prize-committee-issues-reminder-honors-are-non-transferable
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 cant 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 Atlantics Anne Applebaum to note, summarizing the circumstances, Its hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become.