1 day ago - ... Some critics argue that the Nobel Committee embarrassed Barack Obama by honoring him too early in his presidency, but the Norway-based awarding panel seems determined to keep Donald Trump away from the honor.

1 day 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 - 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 ...

1 day ago - Yes, the White House confirmed Trump would keep it, USA TODAY reported on Jan. 16. Trump has long wanted the Nobel Peace Prize, mocking and questioning why former President Barack Obama received the award in his first year in office.

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

October 9, 2025 - Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples” — even though he had been in power for only a few months at that point.

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...

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....

18 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 - 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 - Many argued Obama had not been in office long enough to have an impact worthy of the Nobel. And Trump's own outspokenness about possibly winning the award might work against him: The committee won't want to be seen as caving in to political pressure, said Nina Græger, director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo. Trump's prospects for the prize this year are "a long shot," she said.

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'

9 hours ago - President Donald Trump said it was a “wonderful gesture of mutual respect.” The Nobel Committee said the medal can change hands, but “the title of a Nobel Peace Prize laureate cannot.”

2 days ago - The Nobel Institute has said Machado could not give her prize to Trump, an honour that he has coveted. "I presented the president of the United States the medal, the Nobel Peace Prize," Machado told reporters after leaving the White House and ...

August 10, 2025 - He told the New York Times that Trump “saw that Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize and felt if Obama got it for not doing anything, why should he not get it?” The Times noted other instances where Trump has publicly and privately groused about not getting the award in spite of Obama’s reception.

1 day ago - President Donald Trump meets with María Corina Machado in the Oval Office, where she presented him with her Nobel Peace Prize, on January 15, 2026.

20 hours ago - The inscription reads that his “Principled and Decisive Action to Secure a Free Venezuela” has been recognized. The Norwegian Nobel Institute has said the Peace Prize is not transferable.