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.
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.
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.
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’.
The Nobel committee announce that the “Peace Prize” cannot be transferred or shared.
If it were gently misted with a polonium isotope first I’d be fine with this
“Oil industry’s chosen candidate happy to swap worthless bauble for entire country”
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 thought that Obama got it for the Iran peace deal, despite being the bomber in chief.
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 think it’s weird how conservatives cried over Obama getting the Nobel for basically nothing, but now, Trump’s fan club is getting him the Nobel a week after the military raid.
Not saying Obama deserved the prize, but at least it went through the committee. Trump, of course, is not big on the whole “going through the committee” thing.
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.
Well, good thing it doesn’t matter who or what possesses the prizes. Otherwise, I guess some museum somewhere has Nobels too. (And the British Museum owns Egypt, on account of them having some pharaoh’s jewels or something.)
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.
Did he make a bet with someone that he could get a peace prize?
I think he just hates that Obama has one
Yeah kinda. Obama got one and he feels immaculated by that.
Edit: emasculated not immaculated lol
I think the word you’re looking for is emasculated.
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.
How could she transfer the Nobel prize? Sure, prize winners get a medal, a diploma, and monetary award, but what’s really important is the recognition and the honor of being a Nobel laureate. A lot of them give the prize money to charity, and…
…oh lord, it’s the gold medal. [REDACTED] is such a toddler that he’s captivated by shiny, gold baubles.
I mean, Trump stole the soccer Club World Cup trophy and put it in the Oval office, leaving the actual champions with a replica.
He doesn’t give a shit about the accomplishment, only about the prize.
[REDACTED] is such a toddler that he’s captivated by shiny, gold baubles.
Hey what the fuck man?
Spit out our coffee hahaha 😂
No no, you see…the brackets imply it’s optional. You are not optional. You are EXPECTED!
He’s a malignant narcissist. He’s literally crazy. It wouldn’t surprise me if all of the actions he’s taken against Venezuela since the Prize was announced comes down to this attempt to literally start a war to steal it and then scream “Nah nah nah! I’m as good as Obamna! No! Better! The best!”
All we’ve needed this whole time is a raccoon trap.
It’s like the Purple Heart all over again.
Though at the same time, it’s not really that much of a surprise, is it? The man loves gold-coloured things.
Honestly, if I could buy the reign over my country with a medal, I would try
He wants every single cent and the clout. Just like the biggest shit on the face of this planet (ever) would
Donald “Smaug” Trump
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.
Lmao, I did that in high school. My grade was called to the podium to receive a medal and I stand up with all the guys that actually played sports. When the PE teacher were giving the medals he said to me that I better join the team next year.
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.
