20 hours ago - The Nobel Committee waded in to clarify that Machado cannot give Trump her prize, but Machado told reporters that she did so anyway. The episodes illustrate a core quirk of Nobel protocol: the title is immovable, but the tangible benefits are entirely in the laureate’s hands.​ · Obama tried to defuse some of the controversy around his award by redirecting the spotlight.

15 hours ago - The Nobel laureate gave her medal to Trump at the White House on Thursday “in recognition [of] his unique commitment [to] our freedom”. Several hours later, Trump wrote on Truth Social that Machado “presented me with her Nobel peace prize ...

1 day ago - It said the prize was acceptable because the gift wasn’t from a “King, Prince, or foreign State.” Obama did donate the $1.4 million cash prize to charity.) But Machado seems to have reasoned that presenting her medal to Trump could have ...

October 10, 2025 - President Donald Trump lashed out at former President Barack Obama for winning the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize shortly after taking office. Trump, who hoped to earn the honor this year, was passed over for a Venezuelan politician on Oct. 10

1 day ago - Machado told reporters in Capitol Hill on Thursday afternoon that she had given Trump her medal, which she won last year due to her commitment to turning Venezuela into a democracy. However, the Norwegian Nobel Committee posted a lengthy tweet Thursday that noted while many prizes 'have been passed on' after the winner's death, they cannot be gifted. 'A medal can change owners, but the title of a Nobel Peace Prize laureate cannot.'

Answer (1 of 102): I would hope the Nobel Award Committee has learned its lesson, and will never again designate an award sans any accomplishments whatsoever. The Nobel Peace Prize has forever been cheapened by giving Obama an award he so richly did not deserve. That being said, Trump has been i...

1 day ago - The White House later posted a photo of Trump and Machado, with the U.S. president holding up a large, gold-colored frame displaying the medal. A bust of Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) ...

October 9, 2025 - Not only does Donald Trump deserve ... more. Four of his predecessors have won the prize. Barack Obama won seven months into his presidency essentially for not being George W....

1 day ago - We just decided to check the Nobel ... after we decided to stop being a total bitch and rubbing in that Barack Obama has won a Nobel and Donald Trump never will, we checked 2025:...

October 4, 2025 - "When you look at previous winners ... Donald Trump." The Nobel committee was met with fierce criticism in 2009 for giving then-U.S. President Barack Obama the prize barely nine months into his first term....

1 day ago - Donald Trump Sends Venezuelan Opposition Leader Away with Trump-Branded Swag Bag After She Hands over Her Nobel Peace Prize · Donald Trump Says Barack Obama Got the Nobel Peace Prize for 'Doing Nothing'

17 hours ago - All this culminated on 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 ...

1 day ago - WASHINGTON, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado gave her Nobel Peace Prize medal to U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday during a White House meeting, in a bid to influence his efforts to shape her country's ...

19 hours ago - President Trump himself praised Machado following her selection, and Machado said that Trump was a worthy winner for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. Sources close to Trump later told The Washington Post that her decision to accept the award effectively ...

1 day ago - Earlier on Thursday, Nobel organizers posted on X: “A medal can change owners, but the title of a Nobel peace prize laureate cannot.” · Machado’s dramatic escape from Venezuela to accept the Norwegian prize made headlines in December. Analysts saw her decision to present the award to Trump as an attempt to salvage her movement’s waning hopes of taking power now that Maduro was out of the picture and behind bars in New York.

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June 25, 2025 - Donald Trump Jr. has said that Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize while his father has not is the result of "affirmative action."

1 day ago - President Donald Trump was slammed across social media after he accepted Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize at the White House Thursday.