Symbolic gesture: Machado: I offered Trump with the Nobel Prize medal | EUROtoday

Venezuelan opposition chief María Corina Machado stated she offered her Nobel Prize gold medal to US President Donald Trump. After the 2 met in Washington, she didn’t touch upon whether or not Trump had accepted her present. Trump has been saying for months that he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. But final yr Machado was honored with it.

In addition to a certificates, Nobel Prize winners additionally obtain a gold medal. Machado instructed reporters in Washington that she gave her medal to Trump. The Nobel Prize Institute had made it clear days in the past {that a} Nobel Prize couldn’t be handed on.

Machado had beforehand devoted her award to Trump. She is combating for her future position in Venezuela, the place Trump had the authoritarian ruler Nicolás Maduro and his spouse taken into custody with army drive firstly of the yr and delivered to the USA, the place they’re accused of drug smuggling. Trump had beforehand stated that Machado didn’t have the mandatory help and respect in Venezuela to steer the nation. The USA is presently counting on Maduro’s Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, who took excessive job.