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The Nobel Basis weighed in Sunday after Venezuela’s opposition chief gifted her Nobel Peace Prize to President Donald Trump.
Maria Corina Machado gave her Peace Prize to Trump throughout a gathering on the White Home final week. The Nobel Basis pushed again on the legitimacy of such a switch on Sunday, nevertheless.
“One of many core missions of the Nobel Basis is to safeguard the dignity of the Nobel Prizes and their administration. The Basis upholds Alfred Nobel’s will and its stipulations. It states that the prizes shall be awarded to those that ‘have conferred the best profit to humankind,’ and it specifies who has the best to award every respective prize,” the muse wrote in an announcement.
“A prize can subsequently not, even symbolically, be handed on or additional distributed,” the assertion continued.
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Nobel Basis mentioned the Peace Prize can’t be shared after Machado gave the award to Trump. (Reuters/Maxwell Briceno and Win McNamee/Getty Photos)
Machado defined her choice to provide Trump her award in an interview with Fox Information.
“He deserves it,” Machado informed “FOX & Buddies Weekend” co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy. “It was a really emotional second.”
Machado mentioned she introduced the prize to the president on behalf of the Venezuelan folks, crediting him for the historic work he did in liberating the nation from its dictator Nicolás Maduro.
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Venezuelans residing in Peru have fun close to the Venezuelan Embassy in Lima on Jan. 3, 2026, after President Donald Trump introduced that U.S. forces captured Venezuelan chief Nicolas Maduro. (Getty Photos)
“[Venezuelans] admire a lot what he has performed for, not solely the liberty of the Venezuelan folks, however I’d say the entire hemisphere,” she mentioned.
As a longtime Maduro critic, Machado has been vocal in supporting Trump’s unprecedented removing of the disgraced Venezuelan chief, prompting her to credit score him with the prize for the historic seize.
Trump appeared happy and gratified by Machado’s gesture.
“It was my Nice Honor to fulfill María Corina Machado, of Venezuela, at this time,” Trump wrote in a Fact Social submit. “María introduced me together with her Nobel Peace Prize for the work I’ve performed. Such a beautiful gesture of mutual respect.”
Venezuelan opposition chief Maria Corina Machado speaks on the Heritage Basis after assembly with President Donald Trump and members of Congress, in Washington, D.C., on Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Picture)
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The Norwegian Nobel Institute had tried to close down the switch earlier than Machado met with Trump earlier this month.
“As soon as a Nobel Prize is introduced, it can’t be revoked, shared, or transferred to others,” the institute mentioned in an announcement. “The choice is remaining and stands forever.”
