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.
😂. Oh wait, this isn’t The Onion?!?
Didn’t you know that Nobel prizes were bearer tokens?
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.
The first Nobel peace prize that was fairly conquered in war
To the MAGAt victor goes the spoils of Peace.
I would be honored if Michael Phelps gave me all his gold medals from Beijing. Then I’d be the best swimmer of all time.
So that’s what’s truly behind the invasion. Oil is just a cover. He just wants that Nobel price.
Honestly, seeing how crooked, petty and deranged he is, I wouldn’t be surprised anymore if this would actually be true.
It matches his malignant narcissism.
pretty sure the nobel prize is a cover for the oil/subjugation, actually I’m convinced his entire personality is a cover really
it gets people talking and stops them from worrying about the things that actually move money and resources in this world
I’ve talked to people who voted for Trump. I asked why they voted for him. Their answer: “I don’t agree with him on any level, but he talks in a way I can understand and other politicians I agree with more I don’t understand, so I just voted for him.”
Honestly, what the actual fuck.
Facts and logic are of the past somehow. The dystopian world portrayed in the movie Idiocracy became a reality, although that movie was way too optimistic: they listed to the smart person.
that’s really interesting and sad, I wonder how much of that is them actually not being able to understand vs them being convinced they can’t understand
kinda feels like the worst type of a feedback loop where people just start rejecting external information
Politics are getting more extreme. Screaming people, far against each other, no middle area, etc. Many just don’t have the energy to follow all that bullshit. Going back and forth. They just want something clear instead of difficult choices. It drains me too, but I can’t vote on something I do not support and I need to know which politicians are full of shit and spread fake news.
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)
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.
Max Fosh technically won prizes too.
What a degenerate.
Whelp Nobel Peace Committee what do you have to say about giving the award to a boot licker
Henry fucking Kissinger was awarded an Nobel. Obama too, despite having just acceded to the presidency and done nothing yet (he would go on and become one of the most prolific drone striker ever). The “peace” Nobel prize is now and always has been a bad taste joke.
“Once a Nobel Prize is announced, it cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others. The decision is final and stands for all time.” - 9 Jan 2026
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.
The Nobel committee announce that the “Peace Prize” cannot be transferred or shared.
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.
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.
It’s fair to say that if that happens, the whole Nobel Peace Prize thing will become worthless.
It became worthless in 1973 when they awarded it to Henry Kissinger
Kissinger was a war mongering piece of shit. Untold number of people died horribly violent deaths because of him. Small pox is more deserving of a peace prize than Kissinger, because at least it kills everyone equally. Kissinger targeted the poorest and most vulnerable
I look forward to someday pissing on his grave
Giving up a peace prize to end a war sounds eligability for a new peace prize.
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’.
That’s not how prizes work though…
This is some Michael Scott move
