Donald Trump has said it would be “an honor” take Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize if she offered it to him, as he prepares to meet the exiled politician next week.
Machado has been in hiding due to persistent threats on her life, emerging only briefly in Oslo after a three-day mission in which she was smuggled out of the country with the help of the U.S. military for the Nobel ceremony.
He’s the kind of person that participation trophies were created for.
Cough FIFA peace prize
That thing is an insult to participation trophies
Remembering back to Trump 1.0, he visited a wounded soldier in the hospital, and admired his Purple Heart, and the MAGA-struck moron (maybe he was medicated) offered it to Trump, who actually took it, saying “I’ve always wanted one of these.”
If you wanted one, go get yourself a traumatic brain injury in a war zone. It would probably improve his cognitive abilities.
The idea of transferring a Nobel prize makes no logical sense. It’s like transferring an academy award. You can give away your trophy but you’re still the one the academy officially gave an award to in recognition of your achievements. You can’t give away the prestige. You can’t give away the record that you were awarded the prize.
You’re missing the punchline that it’s the PEACE prize, and Trump wants to acquire it through force.
The Nobel committee announce that the “Peace Prize” cannot be transferred or shared.
“Oil industry’s chosen candidate happy to swap worthless bauble for entire country”
Trump is so pathetic, why is MAGA attracted to him?
Believe it or not, they’re more pathetic
Yes he is pathetic and he is a bully.
And too many people think bullies that just take what they want are ‘strong’.
tbh the world noble peace price is a joke since obama got it for anouncing stuff, not even following through.
and this shitshow is doubling down on it
a fake price for a fake man
it should have never been near 'murica so it doesn’t even matter when trump gets one too
I agree with your sentiment, but its been a much more significant joke since way before then:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Nobel_Peace_Prize
(Henry Kissinger)
I thought that Obama got it for the Iran peace deal, despite being the bomber in chief.
To be clear, this opposition leader applauded the US’s murder of Venezuelan boats and has been promising to privatize Venezuela’s resources and public sector.
Out of the frying pan…
Eh, Trump fucking with the US’s own puppets is kinda funny. The enemies of the Venezuelan people are fighting.
This is gonna be like how Putin stole a Superbowl ring isn’t it?
No, thats more like when trump pocketed the original FIFA World Cup trophy and stole a medal while he was at it.
It reminds me of when, in his first term, a wheelchair bound veteran gave Trump his Purple Heart, and Trump’s response, if I remember correctly, was, “I’ve always wanted one of these.”
Trump couldn’t even pretend to care about the veteran and just made it about himself.
He also stole a football (soccer) trophy last year. And then put himself in the winners circle and then stole one of their medals. He is the definition of stolen valor.
There is a fundamental psychological difference between Trump and me. I can’t imagine getting any joy out of a trophy I did nothing to earn
Putin, at least, I can kind of understand. It was a power play. He did it to prove he could rob someone of their most prized possession in front of their face, with zero consequences
What’s wild is every diatribe I’ve ever heard about participation trophies has been from a Maga voter.
Sure, if Putin had started a war and then forced a person to give him the ring to get him to stop bombing their country.
😂. Oh wait, this isn’t The Onion?!?
Didn’t you know that Nobel prizes were bearer tokens?
I mugged Syukuro Manabe the other day and found the a Nobel Prize for physics in his wallet. I’m super smart now.
The obvious play here is for Machado to give Trump a blatantly fake knockoff of her Nobel Prize. If Trump doesn’t immediately realize it he will be unable to admit he got duped later and double down on his prize being real.
Give him one made of chocolate. See how long it takes for him to notice.
Using a nations military to declare a war in order to physically steal a nobel prize is really something.
To be fair, the actual recipient used the Nobel peace prize speech to call for the war.
Did…did tRump really start a war to steal a peace prize? Holy shit I hate it here!
The first Nobel peace prize that was fairly conquered in war
To the MAGAt victor goes the spoils of Peace.
I hope she assassinates him by poisoning the peace prize
She’s pretty pro-trump, she probably will give it to him; it seems like an incredibly obvious bribe.
Is she actually pro-Trump or does she just really need his good graces? (genuine question, I don’t know much about Machado)
She’s pretty pro-trump, but to my eye the distinction between if she’s courting trump because she just wants the influence he’ll bring or if she genuinely believes in his insanity it seems like the same result to me - she’s willing to treat with a murdering pedophile wannabe tyrant for power, that’s pretty damning on it’s own.
Ivan Gorchev, sailor on the freight ship ‘Rangoon’, was not yet twenty-one when he won the Nobel Prize in physics. To win a scientific award at such a romantically young age is unprecedented, though some people might consider the means by which it was achieved a flaw. For Ivan Gorchev won the Nobel Prize in physics in a card game, called macao, from a Professor Bertinus, on whom the honour had been bestowed in Stockholm by the King of Sweden a few days earlier. But those who are always finding fault don’t like to face facts, and the fact of the matter is that Ivan Gorchev did win the Nobel Prize at the age of twenty-one.
Opening lines from the novel “The Fourteen-Carat Roadster” by Jenő Rejtő (P. Howard)
Max Fosh technically won prizes too.
Is it a good read? I’m intrigued.
From what I remember, it is. I read it very long ago as a kid, and I found it quite funny. Sort of a parody of popular adventure novels at that time (1930s), making fun of the usual tropes. Lot of things inspired by the writer’s own extensive travels in Western Europe and North Africa. It’s probably avaiable for pennies or free now.
