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Trump has Machado's Nobel Prize, but neither got what they really wanted
President Trump received a framed 2025 Nobel Peace Prize from Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who has been barred from governing her country. Trump, long fixated on the award, claimed it for his peacemaking efforts, while Machado's gesture appears to be a strategic political calculation amidst complex U.S. dealings with Venezuela's interim government.
Ever since President Donald Trump first took office in 2017, he has been obsessed with the Nobel Peace Prize, and has made no effort to hide his deep sense of injustice that President Barack Obama won it in 2009 for, in the eyes of the Nobel committee, his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
Trump has a different view, which he offered in an interview with The New York Times last week: Obama "was there for a few weeks, and he got it. He didn't even know why he got it." Trump then recited the now-familiar list of "eight wars" he claims to have stopped.
All this culminated Thursday afternoon in a bizarre scene in a White House that has had its share of jaw-dropping events. The president took possession of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, which its true recipient, María Corina Machado, had turned over, framed in gold.
It was a window into the president's psyche, including his deep need for affirmation of his role as a "peacemaker," even after a year of ordering military strikes on several continents. It was also revealing of Machado's political calculations. Her party overwhelmingly won the 2024 presidential election in Venezuela but has been barred by Trump from any role in governing the nation after the capture of Nicolás Maduro.
Trump said he was "honored" to finally receive the prize, and he grinned broadly as he posed with Machado in the Oval Office, holding the oversized frame. Shortly after, Machado left. The medal stayed.
"Maria presented me with her Nobel Peace Prize for the work I have done," Trump later effused on social media. "Such a wonderful gesture of mutual respect. Thank you Maria!"
In truth, it was a pretty hollow event for both of them. Trump can hang the medal on the wall, but to the rest of the world -- and in the records of the Nobel committee -- he cannot legitimately call himself a Nobel laureate.
That was made clear a few hours later by Kristian Berg Harpviken, the director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, who archly noted that "receiving the symbols of the Peace Prize does not make anyone a Peace Prize laureate." This has been tried before, he noted, including once in 1943 when Knut Hamsun, who won the Nobel literature prize in 1920, sent it to the Nazi propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels. (Hamsun, who often espoused admiration for Adolf Hitler, mailed the medallion to Goebbels. But it was lost after Goebbels committed suicide in 1945.)
The gifting plan also did not seem to work for Machado, at least immediately. As she and Trump were meeting, the CIA director, John Ratcliffe, was in Caracas meeting with Delcy Rodríguez, the interim president of Venezuela. She had been Maduro's vice president, and was part of the forces that barred Machado from running in the election -- one of many steps the Maduro government took to fix the outcome.
In short, Trump has chosen to operate Venezuela through the very people Machado fought. The prize -- the one Trump claimed as his own -- was essentially given to mark the bravery of those who stood up to the forces Trump has now embraced, betting that Rodríguez will do his bidding and grant U.S. companies access to the world's largest oil reserve. And Trump believes the old regime -- not Machado -- is most likely to enable the United States to run Venezuela's affairs by remote control.
It is, in short, realpolitik in its rawest form, something Henry Kissinger would have admired. If that means embracing the political power structure set up by Hugo Chávez and Maduro -- and rejected by a strong majority of Venezuelans -- that is the price that Trump appears willing to pay.
It seemed like Machado had been cornered into making her gift. At first, she had "dedicated" the Nobel to Trump. But in an interview last week, Sean Hannity, the Fox News commentator and one of Trump's supporters and informal advisers, asked the opposition leader, "Did you at any point offer to give him the Nobel Peace Prize?"
Machado said that "it hasn't happened yet, but I certainly would love to be able to personally tell him" that he, and the Venezuelan people, shared in it.
That changed, and now Machado appears to be playing the long game. She is betting that sooner or later, the survivors of the Maduro regime will be ousted, and so giving Trump what he wants -- that golden Nobel medallion -- is a worthwhile investment.
"I have no doubt that President Trump, his administration and the people of the United States support democracy, justice, freedom and the mandate of the people of Venezuela," she said Friday in a speech to the Heritage Foundation, ticking off four values that Trump has spoken about very little as he has described his plans to bring American enterprises, especially oil companies, back to the country.
She insisted that "once the regime is out and the transition is accomplished, the United States will not only be a safer nation, but one that will have more prosperity and strength in our hemisphere."
The bigger mystery is how Trump regards the handover of the prize.
He clearly was interested in possessing it, perhaps because possession, as he has said of Greenland, is "psychologically important." Of course, he already has one Nobel Peace Prize medallion just steps from the Oval Office: the 1906 award given to Theodore Roosevelt, which is kept in the Roosevelt Room.
Roosevelt won the prize for bringing an end to the Russo-Japanese War, and even some of Trump's critics have said that, if Trump could do the same for the war between Russia and Ukraine, he would be the natural candidate for the next award. But that has been frustratingly elusive, as Trump himself often admits, even while ticking off other conflicts -- India vs. Pakistan, Thailand vs. Cambodia, Israel vs. Hamas and Egypt vs. Ethiopia, among others -- that he claims credit for ending.
Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said Friday that Trump intended to keep the prize, but noted that "its final home in the White House is still yet to be decided."
But she suggested that the issue was not over for Trump, that the wrong he believes was committed against him by the Nobel committee has not been resolved.
"It does not solve the problem," she said, "and he's still worthy of actually being the recipient of the reward."Add as a Reliable and Trusted News Source Add Now!
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