Donald Trump leaned on Norway…
Got one of his flunkies to nominate him…
Several other country leaders also spoke up for him…
NOPE….
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado gets the Nobel Peace Prize….
He has done good for Gaza so far…
But?
The guy HAS rubbed a LOT of the world the WRONG Way….
Actions have consequences…..
President Donald Trump on Friday did not win the Nobel Peace Prize he has long sought, with the award going to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.
Trump this year has forcefully lobbied for the prize, claiming to have solved seven to eight wars over the course of this term — though the reality is more complicated. Seven world leaders endorsed him for the prize, according to the White House.
He punctuated that work this week by finalizing the first phase of a peace deal in Gaza, although it is widely assumed that the winner was selected weeks ago.
Machado “has spoken out for judicial independence, human rights, and popular representation” in a time of declining democracy, Nobel Committee Chairman Jørgen Watne Frydnes said. “She has spent years working for the freedom of the Venezuelan people.”
“We live in a world where democracy is in retreat, where more and more authoritarian regimes are challenging norms and resorting to violence,” he added, saying Venezuela is “not unique,” with “rule of law abused by those in control.”
Machado is a fierce critic of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro’s regime and has lived in hiding in Venezuela for the last year.
The prize has loomed large in Trump’s mind; he has frequently brought it up since he returned to the Oval Office. “They will never give me a Nobel Peace Prize,” the president told reporters in February. “It’s too bad. I deserve it, but they will never give it to me.”…
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Four U.S. presidents and one vice president have won the award, including former Presidents Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt; and former Vice President Al Gore. Roosevelt was the last Republican president to nab the award, in 1906….
image…The Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado attends a protest called by the opposition in Caracas, Venezuela, on January 9, 2025. | Jonathan Lanza/NurPhoto via Getty …
79 time Nobel Peace Prize Loser
Amen!