Venezuela’s Nobel Peace Prize winner is barred from giving her trophy to Trump despite arguing ‘he deserves it’

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize will not be officially awarded to Donald Trump, according to the committee that distributes the award.

Machado initially dedicated the award to Trump but later stated: The president’s desire to give him the trophy, which he said would be ‘a great honour’ to accept.

But the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced on Friday that this would be impossible.

‘The Norwegian Nobel Committee and the Norwegian Nobel Institute are receiving a number of requests for comment on the permanence of the Nobel Peace Prize winner’s status,’ they said in a statement.

‘The facts are clear and obvious. Once the Nobel Prize is announced, it cannot be cancelled, shared or transferred to others. The decision is final and valid for all time.’

The statement then links to a statement regarding the Nobel Prize rules, which states that ‘no objections can be made to the awarding institution’s decision regarding the awarding of the prize’.

A White House spokesman told the Daily Mail it was clear that the president should receive the award no matter what.

‘President Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize many times. “America’s direct involvement in major conflicts, using tools ranging from military might to our superior consumer market, has brought peace to decades of wars around the world,” he said.

Machado (pictured) initially dedicated the award to Trump but has since expressed his desire to present the trophy to him; president says it would be ‘a great honor’ to accept

‘The President’s legacy is already cemented as Peacemaker-in-Chief, so it’s no surprise that he’s being nominated from left and right. But as the President said, he doesn’t care about recognition; just to save lives.’

Machado, whose preferred candidate many believe should rightfully be chosen to replace deposed leader Nicolas Maduro, has repeatedly thanked Trump for his support.

‘I dedicate this award to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his steadfast support of our cause!’ Machado wrote to X shortly after his victory in October.

However, reports suggest that Trump’s displeasure with accepting the award – which he had long coveted – left him in the lurch after Maduro’s capture, and that Trump said Machado had “no respect” for being elected president in Venezuela.

In an interview with Fox News earlier this week, Machado made more clear his desire to pass the award to Trump.

“Let me be very clear, as soon as I found out we were worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize, I committed myself to Trump because I knew at that point that he deserved it,” she said.

Machado confirmed to Sean Hannity that Maduro’s capture is another reason why he believes ‘he deserved it.’

Hannity asked if he had spoken to Trump since the military operation and his comments about Trump’s running the country, and he admitted that they had not spoken since his Nobel Prize victory.

In an interview with Fox News earlier this week, Machado made more clear his desire to pass the award to Trump.

The presenter then asked: ‘Did you at any point offer to give him the Nobel Peace Prize? Did this really happen?’

‘Yes, it hasn’t happened yet, but I would certainly personally love to tell him that we believe that the people of Venezuela, because this is a reward of the people of Venezuela, want to give it to him and share it with him.’

Machado is scheduled to be in Washington next week, where the ceremonial sharing of the award could potentially take place.

The president said in an interview on Thursday that he would ‘say hello’ to Maduro next week after refusing to allow him power during the transition.

The president said he would be honored to receive Machado’s award, but said he should receive as many as eight Nobel Prizes.

‘It would be a great honour. “I had an eight, eight and a quarter war because Thailand and Cambodia started attacking each other again,” he said.

He argued that the Nobel committee’s failure to award him the prize this year was “a great shame for Norway”, where they are located.

‘Theoretically when you start eight wars, you should have one for each war,’ he said.

The president said in an interview Thursday that he would be honored to receive Machado’s award, but said he should receive as many as eight Nobel Prizes.

Trump as White House distances itself from Machado after Maduro’s capture Insiders revealed that his displeasure stemmed from Trump accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, an honor he had long coveted for himself.

A person familiar with Trump’s thinking told the Washington Post: “If he had turned down the offer and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it belongs to Donald Trump,’ he would be president of Venezuela today.” ‘It was a ‘great sin’ for him to accept the award.

On Saturday, Trump largely dismissed Machado’s hopes, saying it would be ‘very difficult for him to be a leader’ and claiming he ‘has neither support nor respect at home’. Machado’s comments caught Machado’s team off guard, according to those close to him.

Machado’s running mate, Edmundo González, won more than two-thirds of the vote in last year’s election, which Maduro refused to honor by resigning.

Instead, Maduro’s former Vice President Delcy Rodriguez was appointed to the interim position.

U.S. officials say Venezuela’s vast oil wealth offers Rodriguez both an incentive to engage with Trump and a source of leverage if he doesn’t.

In Venezuela, the armed forces recognized Rodriguez as acting president.

People close to Machado say his team was caught off guard by Trump’s comments and even received support from Republicans.

Rep. Carlos Gimenez said in an interview that Machado would win the election if it were held today.

Florida Republican Reps. María Elvira Salazar and Mario Díaz-Balart also held a press conference in Doral on Jan. 3 to strongly reaffirm their support for Machado.

Salazar, a longtime ally who often refers to Machado as Venezuela’s “Iron Lady,” noted that any democratic transition must occur “under the leadership of María Corina Machado.”

Díaz-Balart also silenced allegations that he lacked respect by declaring that ‘the next democratically elected president of Venezuela will be María Corina Machado.’

Former US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul claimed that Trump threw Machado ‘under the bus’ because of the Nobel Peace Prize.