The winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize is Venezuelan politician Maria Corina Machado
The award goes to the person or organisation that’s done the most “for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses”
US President Donald Trump had led a public campaign to win the award, but nominations closed in January - at the start of his second term in office
Trump will now threaten to take over Venezuela, hit Norway with 300% trade tariffs, and argue that the Nobel Prize means nothing at all whilst simultaneously saying its committee is a fraud and he actually won it.
There’s a complication for Trump. He hates Maduro. The US in general (by which I mean administrations of both major political parties) wants him out. Machado is the major candidate of the opposition to Maduro. She also would give away Venezuela’s oil reserves, which the US definitely wants.
So the Nobel committee just awarded the prize to someone who 1) is hardly a voice for peace, and 2) Trump generally needs to support. Now, #2 is based on Trump not being a shortsighted idiot, and we all know how that works out.
Its hard not to see this as at least mildly trolling Trump by giving it to a Venezuelan, considering he seems pretty dead set on starting a war with Venezuela while also never shutting up about how he thinks he deserves the peace prize
Trump logic: Start war with Venezuela and complain that stupid committee gave peace price to country at war.
She’s a far right escualido, a Trump fluffer.
She literally dedicated her prize to Trump on twitter 😭 what a joke
It’s the equivalent of giving a Nobel peace prize to Laura Loomer. It’s defintely not the Trump own everyone thinks it is.
I’m very relieved to hear that at least some people still have some spine.
He will get it next year, no worries. Or there will be a extraordinary award just for him in between.
I’d have preferred for the prize to go to the Freedom Flotillas.
giving a Venezuelan a bigger platform in times of US bullying, well played Norway
