Organisers clarify award ‘cannot be revoked, shared or transferred’ after Venezuelan opposition leader’s comments
The organisers of the Nobel peace prize have said it “cannot be revoked, shared or transferred” after Venezuela’s opposition leader, María Corina Machado, said she wanted to give her award to Donald Trump.
When Machado was named Nobel laureate in October, it was seen as a snub by the White House, despite Machado rushing to dedicate the prize to the US president and his “decisive support of our cause”.
Trump has made no secret of his strongly held desire to be awarded the Nobel peace prize, the winner of which is selected by an independent five-person committee in Oslo.
Leave it up to trump to put a gun to somebody’s head and threaten to kill them unless they hand over their Nobel peace prize.
The levels of asshole and dumb here is again amazing.
In that aspect I kinda impressed by trump, in a sick, twisted sense, that is. Every time I think the asshole has hit rock bottom, somehow he just keeps digging and actually get himself deeper, still. Going on like this, he might actually find and pass hitler on his way down.
I don’t think he’s as stupid as we all think he is. Well, I do and I don’t. Ever have a friend who just got musical theory from a young age? Trump is a grade A dumbass except when it comes to being a calculated piece of shit. I’ve never seen anyone more successfully opportunistic with dipping their toes into what they can get away with than him. It’s honestly an impressive, albeit morally bankrupt skill.
Take it back dynamite guilt club. Take it back.
Piece of shit prize more like
The committee tried to appease Trump by offering it to a Venezuelan right winger. They learned the lesson so many have learned; that these people cannot be met halfway, if you give them an inch they WILL take a foot.
I don’t see what’s the problem with that.
It’s not as if, after giving one to Kissinger, the nobel peace prize is anything more than a bitch to political propaganda.
I hate this bitch.
Imagine wanting to become president so bad, you promise to give your Nobel prize to the guy who just invaded your country, in the hopes that he will stage a coup for you, but then your plans are suddenly foiled because the Nobel prize committee said no, and that’s a dealbreaker for Trump’s support because he is the most superficial man on the planet. I suppose she can just give him her physical medal, which will make him happy because it’s shiney.
He will also just claim he is now the Nobel laureate, no matter what the committee says, and some time next year he will make it a huge diplomatic incident when he is not added to some official list of laureates.
Yeah, I’m surprised that she actually asked the Nobel Comittee about it - just give Trump the medal and shut up whilst he loudly harps about how he has a Nobel Peace Prize.
It’s not as if that guy cares about objective reality or rules (or even has a fully adult mind) - having the shiny token is more than enough for him to go around showing it and saying he has a Nobel Peace Prize.
The most logical option for her is just giving the medal to Trump, telling him he now has a Nobel Peace Prize and letting his infantile mind twist that into him feeling like a Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
Yeah the way the media works these days, it doesn’t matter what the committee says. If she says she gave it to him and he says he’s the new winner, than that’s all that most people will ever hear about.
I will give him my Nobel prize too if he stops invading (and threatening to invade) countries and finally stops that one russian invasion. It’s really shiny!!
I suppose she can just give him her physical medal,
as if that wasn’t part of the deal
That request from Trump was a “test of spine”.
Now that he made sure she has none, she will be chewed with the rest.
The fact that she offered to share a Peace Prize with that fucking crybaby should earn her a second Peace Prize.
Remember me again how trump getting the noble peace prize fixes the economy, gets ICE agents off our streets, ends the genocide in Gaza, ends the war in Ukraine, lowers the cost of fuel, food, housing, gets the Epstein files released in full? Oh yea that’s right it doesn’t.
“Spineless cunt is denied the opportunity to bend over for immature tyrant” - FTFY
From her perspective it’s the correct move. To gain back control of the country a Nobel prize will not be helpful, American support will.
This would get the democratically elected government in charge, instead of Maduros cronies.
If the American president is that easy to bribe, that’s a problem for the US. She’s just playing by the new rules.
America shouldn’t be anywhere near Venezuela, but if you get handed a Deus ex machina, you take it.
I totally agree that’s how it looks for her. It’s an example of a prisoners dilemma.
Short term it’s best to just make trump happy and try to salvage sanity from the bullshit.
Long term though, she’s just validating all the bullshit trump is doing, adding to his power, and telling him that if he screams loud enough he will always eventually get his way. Trump will be a worse person, Venezuela will be a temporary reprieve and then be worse off, and the whole world has a larger mess to clean up.
World would be so much better if people didn’t fall prey to prisoners dilemmas and actually made the best long term decision for everyone every time. Might be getting too late to ever see that world tbh.
Bottom line is nobody should be feeding the orange infant.
More in general, “American support” isn’t necessarily a positive thing in the mid or long term, especially in Latin America and even more in the present age when Fascism is normalized in American and Fascists get elected to lead the US.
For her it risks being like a drowning person getting a nose to put around her neck to be pulled out of the water.
Except no she doesn’t care about Venezuelans if she did she wouldn’t cheer on their bombing and blockading and promise to hand over all resources to America.
It makes sense that one who is spineless would naturally be bent over.
it’s incredibly shameful how these oposition figures are so quick to give away their country to the Orange Pedo for a shot at the presidency… not a thought about the Venezuelan people
She pretty much conspired with trump from the get-go to remove maduro.
Not spineless greedy and imperialist she is not giving in to demands she has long advocated for turning all Venezuelan resources over to American companies.
Eh, I could see it as a reasonable deal from her perspective. If giving Trump a pointless shiny metal disk got him to actually back democratic reform in Venezuela, sure, give him the shiny metal disk. Whatever, it’s just a thing.
Unfortunately it wouldn’t work, though; Trump never sticks to his deals after he’s got what he wanted out of them or when he sees an opportunity to squeeze even more out of you. So might as well keep the shiny metal disk.
Yeah, she believes in her cause far more than a shiny metal disk, which if given up the rest of the world will know what happened. Not like she was motivated by it, and it’s the only card she really has when dealing with the US military. Certainly not worth calling her a spineless… That.
Her cause is turning over all resources to us companies.
You really think that would’ve been her cause had the 2024 election gone a different way?
She’s been clear about this for more than a decade now and spent much of the last few years even before 2024 praising Trump, Milei and friends so yes.
They should rescind the award for even suggesting the idea…
Well since she’s having a gun to her head, I kinda understand the gesture. She is walking on water thin ice here. On the one hand she has a country she wants to survive and, you know, not being plundered by the cheeto, and on the other hand… I don’t know, it’s trump, you fill it in…
I mean, she doesn’t deserve it either
One begins to question how she was awarded the prize in the first place
She wants capitalists to run Venezuela.
Just found out and believe me, people are VERY upset that the Nobel Peace Prize is NOT transferable. Amazing. After all the peace, the deals, the HISTORIC calm (tremendous calm, many people are saying THE MOST CALM IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD), they say ‘sorry, rules are rules.’ Meanwhile Obama gets one for showing up. Didn’t even DO ANYTHING! I finished wars, avoided wars, brought about peace very strongly — NO PRIZE. If it were transferable (like common sense says it should be), they’d be sending it over immediately. Very unfair system, very political, very Scandinavian. RIGGED! SAD! I should have a prize for each of the 8 WARS I SOLVED. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!
-@RealDonaldTrump
… christ, I have no idea if this is legit or not. Maybe… No? Just because he’d have to admit defeat?
I don’t know. It was going alright, but that Scandinavian burn has got to hurt.
massive baby
