Machado Presented Trump With Her Nobel Peace Prize
“Two hundred years in history, the people of Bolívar are giving back the heir of Washington, a medal, in this case the medal of the Nobel Peace Prize, as a recognition for his unique commitment with our freedom.”
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado told reporters that she presented President Donald Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize during their meeting.
Machado fled Venezuela in December to collect her prize.
From Fox News:
“I presented the president of the United States the medal … the Nobel Peace Prize, and I told him, ‘Listen to this, 200 years ago, General Lafayette gave Simón Bolívar a medal with George Washington’s face on it,” Machado said. “He kept that medal for the rest of his life. Actually, when you see his portraits, you can see the medal.”
She said Lafayette gave the medal to Bolívar as a symbol of the partnership between the people of the U.S. and the people of Venezuela and their shared fight for freedom against tyranny.
“Two hundred years in history, the people of Bolívar are giving back the heir of Washington, a medal, in this case the medal of the Nobel Peace Prize, as a recognition for his unique commitment with our freedom,” Machado said.
Venezuelan Opposition Leader María Corina Machado:
I presented Trump the Nobel Peace Prize.
The people of Bolivar are giving back to the heir of Washington a medal, the medal of the Nobel Peace Prize, for the recognition of his unique commitment to our freedom. pic.twitter.com/EVm93lPTV5
— Clash Report (@clashreport) January 15, 2026
It’s all symbolism because the Nobel Institute shot down any idea of Machado transferring or sharing her prize with Trump.
“Once a Nobel Prize is announced, it cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others,” said the institute, according to Fox News. “The decision is final and stands for all time.”
The institute awarded Machado the prize “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”
Machado has been an outspoken critic of the socialist regimes in Venezuela since 1998.
Nicolas Maduro’s regime ousted Machado from the National Assembly in 2014.
The regime banned Machado from running for president in 2024. She supported candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia.
Of course, Maduro won.
It didn’t last long as we all know.
Machado is ecstatic that Trump ousted and captured Nicolas Maduro.
“Due to [Maduro’s] rejection of a negotiated exit, the U.S. government has fulfilled its promise to uphold the law,” stated Machado. “We have fought for years, given everything, and it has been worth it.”
Machado had told Hannity she wanted to hand the prize to Trump in person.
“I certainly would love to be able to personally tell him that we believe — the Venezuelan people, because this is a prize of the Venezuelan people — certainly want to give it to him and share it with him,” Machado said last Tuesday. “What he has done is historic. It’s a huge step toward a democratic transition.”
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She is a first class born leader! I hope she ends up at the top.. Many countries would be very fortunate to have some as dedicated and honest as she is!
God bless you, and may you succeed at what you know needs to be done, Machado
Agreed, Wish we had leaders like that. Instead they lust after prizes like the Nobel looking to embellish their sad legacies.
TDS in plain view.
I;m not talking about Trump, Shhhesshhh,, Okay now I understand the down votes. I was thinking of clowns like Kerry,
Wanna bet she can define what a woman is and could answer succinctly whether men can get pregnant?
“Once a Nobel Prize is announced, it cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others,”
Yeah, way to miss the point guys. That’s clearly not what she intended or did. What she did do was profound, full of symbolism and history. It’s no wonder the significance was lost on the committee.
Once they awarded the peace prize to the utterly demonic Yassir Arafat, it’s meaning was lost forever.
Buried further when one was given to the sainted one.
Oh dear God yes
He deserved it for being a half-black foreign moslem divisive communist.
Say his name aloud: barry-o
“The decision is final and stands for all time.”
So does your L.
You’ve been pwned, and everybody knows it.
The man you would NEVER give one… got one.
Cope and seethe, you disgusting shitlibs.
The Nobel so-called ‘Peace’ prize has been a joke for decades.
Let me remind people of some of the stupidest awards:
2009 – Barack Obama. For doing nothing but being Not Bush.
2007 – To the ‘Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Al Gore’
2002 – Jimmy Carter – for screwing up everything he ever touched and ensuring North Korea got to sit ruling their oppressive dictatorship forever, to the point that even other leftists didn’t care about his ‘peace meetings’ with them
2001 – The ‘United Nations and Kofi Annan’ – the United Nations is a joke. Everybody knows its a joke. Letting oppressive dictatorships sit on the ‘Human Rights’ committee is a joke. The fact they’d award a ‘peace’ prize to them is a joke
1994 – Yassar Arafat. Enough said. They gave him the ‘Peace’ prize for lying to the cameras and doing nothing
1988 – ‘United Nations Peacekeeping Forces.’ Again, the UN is a joke. The peacekeeping forces were a bad joke, there’s a reason they functionally don’t exist anymore, and it’s not because of their great contribution to ‘peace’. They were ridiculous, corrupt, and in many cases WORSE than the people fighting.
The prize has been a joke for decades.
It’s far more meaningful coming from her than the nobel committee.
Coming from her, it has great significance. From the Nobel committee? After Obama, their credibility is negative, if such a thing is possible.
Apparently you have to have full-blown Stage Five TDS to ‘serve’ on the Dynamite Committee. Freakin clown car
The Nobel committee does appear to have full-blown TDS. If Obama had arranged the Abraham Accords he’d have had two Nobels, I have no doubt.
Reminds me of the joke, if Trump was filmed walking on water the NY Times headline would read….
“Trump doesn’t know how to swim”.
They would have either retired the prize or named it after him.
Nice gesture. Unfortunately cartels aren’t going anywhere, just waiting for trump to term out.
He’s not done distributing Lovely Parting Gifts.
Even if trump took out top cartel bosses, new young one would move up in the ranks. They kill each other now and then with infighting. Cartels been around long before trump, will be around long after.
While it is likely that you are correct, it is possible that with the right leader, with full support from the US, Mexico could totally eradicate/destroy/eliminate the cartels down to the last footsoldier. Scheinbaum is not that leader. I am sure there is one somewhere in Mexico. We simply have to find him.
He hasn’t even been in office a year yet and has 3 more full years to go. He’s just getting started. With satellite imagery and stealthy drones to deliver payloads I’d say it’s not going to be a healthy time to be in the drug cartel business, and this is probably going to have quite an effect on their operational model.
New pagers are enroute.
On the contrary. She obviously can’t transfer or share the award, i.e. the title of having been awarded it. No one ever thought she could. The prize is awarded by the committee, not by random people who have been awarded it. But the prize, i.e. the medal and the money, are hers to do with whatever she likes. I assume she kept the money — Trump certainly doesn’t need it — but gave him the medal. So now he owns a medal; if he wants to add to his collection I’m sure he can find some for sale.
You’re missing the point again. The award is an honor because it represents acknowledgment of significant achievements by a group of humans who have historically been well respected. They have lost much of that respect by making some very poor choices recently, but this lady was one of the right ones. So now someone very well regarded by the Committee has chosen to acknowledge President Trump as being worthy of similar praise and recognition. Her opinion matters more than theirs because she has actually accomplished something worth recognizing. Therefore her public proclamation that he has done enough to deserve the same honor that she received is more significant than theirs, and her transfer of the physical medal symbolizes this. In other words, whose opinion deserves more respect, the Committee or a deserved recipient very knowledgeable about the realities involved?
And that’s exactly what she said she dis. What she said was she, as a representative of Venezuelans, was giving Trump, who she considers to be the heir of George Washington, a medal just as Lafayette gave Simon Bolivar a medal with Washington’s face on it. The medal given to Bolivar was to show a connection between the two nations and a shared dedication to fighting tyranny. She stated that she’s giving Trump the medal for the same purpose. It’s a parallel to past events. A nice set of bookends on the relationship between America and the people of Venezuela.
I don’t see anywhere suggesting she actually tried to transfer the nobel title to Trump or award him a nobel prize.
Of course not, but that’s what the Nobel committee stupidly assumed she was attempting. Why else make their statement? It’s completely obvious — but they thought she was trying to do something she obviously can’t do and felt the need to point it out, as if everyone didn’t already know it.
Nobel committee: She can’t do that. He’s not a half black foreign communist!
No, they’re just pointing out that it’s exactly the same as any other award. The recipient can sell or give the medal to anyone they want, but the award remains theirs. You can sell or give away a military decoration, or a congressional gold medal, or an Olympic medal, but you can’t transfer the fact that you were awarded it and the buyer or recipient was not. This is obvious.
I’m trying to remember the last time I heard about someone receiving the Nobel Award. Nothing comes to mind. Heard a lot about the Prize, though. And I’ve heard about people being ~awarded~ the Prize. But I don’t recall a stipulation that the Prize, once awarded, cannot be transferred. Anyone know whether that stipulation exists? Or at least existed a few months ago?
It’s not the Nobel award, it’s the Nobel prize. The committee awards the prize. That is in their control. What happens to the prize itself, after they award it, is outside their control. This is obvious and everyone knows it. If the committee weren’t suffering from TDS they wouldn’t bother commenting on it, because everyone understands what was given and what wasn’t.
But they have to display their leftist virtue, and the only way they could think of to do it was to pretend not to understand what happened, to pretend that she was trying to transfer the award, i.e. the fact that it was awarded to her, so they publicly told her she can’t do that. Which she already knows and never thought she could.
Then why belabor it?
Because they want to distance themselves from Trump, and this is the only way they can do it. Basically they’re making fools of themselves in order to display their TDS.
I have it on good authority that Trump hates this woman because she won the Nobel prize and he didn’t?!? 🤔
The media wouldn’t lie to me right??
She’s desperate to be the next leader of Venezuela and believes she can accomplish that by appealing to Trump’s vanity. Some bad advice from her handlers.
He’s onto her. No sale.
She’s not desperate for anything. One day democracy will return to Venezuela, and she’ll be in the best position to be elected. But she understands the reality that while Maduro is gone his regime is still in place, so her time has not yet come.
I’m pretty sure Trump would come speak to my town’s second grade class if they promised to award him a gold medal for anything.
I was an ok athlete as a kid. Once at an awards ceremony where I was given another trophy my dad jokingly remark, “I’m the one who does all the driving, sits in the cold watching boring games, buys all this equipment, etc. They should give me a trophy.” At his next birthday, I gave him my biggest, most-meaningful trophy with a nice note of thanks for all he did. (What can I say, I was a great kid.) He misted up and kept it on his dresser until the day he died. Don’t tell me that it could not be shared or transferred to others.
If you’ve ever seen him interact with kids, he definitely has the grandpa skills, so I don’t think they’d have to bribe him with a gold medal, or any medal. But I think that’s super sweet what you did for your dad. And I think her “sharing” of the award, approved or otherwise, was a very meaningful symbolic act.
Thank you. I was being a bit tongue in cheek. I agree, Trump is great with kids. In fact, most people who actually meet him, from people who share his views to “enemies” such as Morning Joe, Mahar, Mandami, etc., seem to find him quite personable.
He does love gold though.
One fact that seems to have eluded the committee: those ~receiving~ awards and medals are more deserving and therefore more competent to judge who deserves them than are the judges themselves. Ergo, her transfer of the medal, which is symbolic of the award itself, is perfectly valid.
The whole thing is symbolic in the first place. Machado’s excellent lateral thinking has beautifully trumped* the jokers in Oslo.
* Intentional.
Meh. Same performance art the left does.
No. The left wouldn’t give their own medal. They’d give someone else’s. Much like John Kerry threw away someone else’s medals.
Good point.
It’s the committee statement that’s performance art. They said something completely obvious, as if there was someone who thought otherwise and needed to be told, just so they could demonstrate their disdain for Trump.
Every single time trumps name is mentioned the following should be stated:
nobel peace prize recipient potus trump
it will drive the left more insane
Good idea. He should create a Gulf of America prize for patriotism or somesuch, then award it to himself.
she is showing trump some
“warm fuzzy collectivism” and the left is freakn out
lovnnn it
This is almost better than if they had awarded to Trump in the first place.
According to Grok: There are no recorded instances of a Nobel Peace Prize winner attempting to transfer or give their award to another nominee prior to María Corina Machado’s recent gesture toward Donald Trump (a multiple-time nominee for the prize).
Will Obama give Machado his?
Nice symbolic victory for trump, sharing nobel prize. Venezuela problems are bigger than maduro, but its step in right direction.
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