Venezuelan Opposition Leader Says She Presented Her Nobel Peace Prize To Trump | EUROtoday

President Donald Trump has lastly been introduced with the Nobel Peace Prize, and all it took was a army operation with 100 or so casualties.

The 2025 winner of the award, Venezuelan opposition chief María Corina Machado, advised reporters Thursday she “presented” the medal to Trump throughout a gathering on the White House.

“I presented the President of the United States the medal of the Nobel Peace Prize,” Machado stated, evaluating it to the Continental Army General Marquis de Lafayette giving Venezuelan revolutionary Simón Bolívar a medal bearing a picture of George Washington.

“The people of Bolivar are giving back to the heir of Washington a medal, in this case, the medal of the Nobel Peace Prize, in a recognition for his unique commitment with our freedom,” Machado stated.

Trump has lengthy coveted the prize and stated he deserved it, at the same time as he has ordered army strikes in seven international nations within the first yr of his second time period.

In a publish on Truth Social, the president stated it was a “great honor” to fulfill Machado.

“She is a wonderful woman who has been through so much. María presented me with her Nobel Peace Prize for the work I have done. Such a wonderful gesture of mutual respect,” Trump wrote, apparently referring to Machado giving ― and himself receiving ― the reward.

The Nobel Peace Center famous Thursday that the prize is just not really transferable: “A medal can change owners, but the title of a Nobel Peace Prize laureate cannot.”

Machado lived in hiding after being kicked off the 2024 presidential poll by that nation’s former dictator president, Nicolas Maduro, whom Trump ordered captured this month in a army raid that killed round 100 Venezuelans and Cubans.

Rather than throw assist to Machado, and even name for elections, the Trump administration has basically left Maduro’s regime intact, with the president praising interim president Delcy Rodriguez, a Maduro loyalist, as a “terrific person” this week.

Republican lawmakers from South Florida, whose districts are dwelling to many individuals of Cuban and Venezuelan descent, had hoped Trump would again Machado for president of Venezuela, however Trump has beforehand stated she’s not revered sufficient to steer the nation.

“We have a different assessment of her capabilities, that’s all. And it’s just now a matter of convincing the president of her capabilities,” Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.) advised HuffPost final week.

Handing over the Nobel prize is a key a part of Machado’s allure offensive, although it’s not clear if it is going to sway Trump towards backing democracy in Venezuela.