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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(132,934 posts) Sat Jan 10, 2026, 02:04 PM Yesterday

Nobel Institute: Trump can't just take Machado's Peace Prize

Donald Trump is so openly desperate for a Nobel Peace Prize that members of his administration attacked the Nobel Committee for putting “politics over peace” when they gave last year’s prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado rather than the U.S. president.

And now, Venezuela’s future might hinge on Machado’s willingness to hand her award over to Trump.,

Machado immediately dedicated her prize to Trump (and the “suffering people of Venezuela”) in October. But apparently that wasn’t good enough for the U.S. president. Hours after the U.S. struck Caracas and ousted Nicolás Maduro on Saturday, Trump said that while Machado’s stand-in candidate won more than two-thirds of the vote in Venezuela’s last election, “It’d be very tough for her to be the leader,” because she “doesn’t have the support or the respect within the country.” So now Delcy Rodríguez, Maduro’s vice president, is acting president.,

Over the weekend, two sources close to the White House told the Washington Post that Trump didn’t want Machado to lead the country because committed the “ultimate sin” of accepting her Nobel Peace Prize.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/nobel-institute-trump-can-t-just-take-machado-s-peace-prize/ar-AA1TUjlw

Didn't somebody give Trump his Purple Heart medal? That might explain his mindset on the Nobel prize.

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Nobel Institute: Trump can't just take Machado's Peace Prize (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Yesterday OP

Nobel Committee Says Peace Prize Cannot Be Transferred After Machado Says She Wants to 'Share It' With Trump LetMyPeopleVote Yesterday #1

I've said in other threads that even if TSF were actually awarded a NPP he still wouldn't be satisfied... 3catwoman3 Yesterday #2

LetMyPeopleVote

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1. Nobel Committee Says Peace Prize Cannot Be Transferred After Machado Says She Wants to 'Share It' With Trump

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sat Jan 10, 2026, 02:09 PM

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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

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.

3catwoman3

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2. I've said in other threads that even if TSF were actually awarded a NPP he still wouldn't be satisfied...

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Reply #1)

Sat Jan 10, 2026, 03:17 PM

Yesterday

...because one wouldn't be enough for him. President Obama has one, so Donnie Dipshit would want at least two, and even that probably wouldn't make him happy.

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