Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado told reporters she presented the medal for her Nobel Peace Prize to President Donald Trump at a private White House meeting on Thursday, but did not say if he accepted it.
“I think today is a historic day for us Venezuelans,” she said after the meeting with Trump, the first time the two have met in-person.
this is so embarrassing for everyone involved, yikes.
Even for the Nobel Price Committee to some degree. I will be interested in what their reaction will be.
They already said that the price is given in the moment and cant be regifted or removed because later acts.
So in a way Trump is just as much nobel price winner as much as my cousing is Olympic ski jumping gold metalist. He bought the metal from auction, but it does not mean he earned it.
Even the Nobel Prize committee? You mean the ones who
gavesold it to her in the first place?
fuck I swear this is pathetic enough to cause an integer overflow or something
Before: bribes done in secret, big scandal if journalists found out
Now: bribes are given in front of hundreds of journalists and photographers and the receiver is smiling like a toddler getting a box of Lego Duplo
Dumbest bribe ever
I gotta say, solid contender for most pathetic image of 2026.
It’s beyond parody, it’s apocalyptically stupid, it can’t be ridiculed because it’s self-ridiculing in a way that’s never been done before. Merely looking at this image makes you dumber. It’s a vortex, a black hole of stupidity and hubris.
Your words are like poetry.
This will age as well as this picture:
Kontext: https://www.worldhistory.org/image/19615/chamberlain-after-the-munich-agreement/
And it’s just mid January…
Yeah, it feels very disorienting honestly, like we just lived through a year in 2 weeks, heh.
By 2027 I’ll be a decade older. Or dead. Probably dead.
The committee should re-award it given that the recipient doesn’t value it.
Given that the Nobel Prize is basically the moral equivalent of a cracker jack prize at this point, and given that it’s guaranteed to make the Toddler in Chief choke on a McDonald’s cheeseburger, they should give it to Obama. I mean, what the fuck - after giving Kissinger one, it’s not like the committee assigning them can be said to stand for anything approaching morality. Might as well do it for the memes.
They should just give the next one to Kissinger, posthumously. Just drive the point home.
Wouldn’t induce as much apoplexy in the diaper wearing fuck. But would still be funny.
So pathetic for the both of them
I bought a superbowl ring, that means I am now a superbowl champion.
That is the logical flow of this, yes.
“Thank you for your Nobel Prize, here is a bag of Trump steaks from 1999”
This is just naked manipulation. I would be ashamed if someone tried it on me, but what do you know, Trump completely laps it up. She’s a sly and calculating operator, I will give her that.
We truly do live in a clown world.
They are all losing their masks. The weakness and demagogy of Maduro’s leadership, american entrism in the opposition, the failure of international institutions etc . We are all fucked, the values we’ve grown up with and that we studied in school were LIES
“Fascism arises from the collapse of legitimacy of liberal institutions”
Did you not always think it was all a sham though?
Damn, I got fooled thinking she was cool. Nobel peace prize really means dick all now huh
FIFA peace prize in shambles…
It’s like bribing and appeasing a toddler at the same time.
More like bribing someone who is known as a child rapist.
You know what they say. It’s easy as bribing a toddler.
I mean, what does a trophy matter in the long run if it means her country and people might be left alone by a madman? She still was the one who was awarded the Nobel and Trump can’t take that away from her.
She’s not doing it in the interest of Venezuela. She’s doing it so that he’ll make her the puppet leader of Venezuela. She’s not Gandhi; she’s Vidkun Quisling.
That’s like buying your boss a “best boss” mug to try to get a raise. It means nothing and your boss is an idiot.
What a dumb bitch. I think after this the Nobel committee should retrospectively take it away from her, so that orange fuck can’t claim that he got it.
She got the Nobel Peace prize. Do you know who else got the Peace prize?
Henry Kissinger.
So Trump just needs to bomb more civilians without congressional approval. Easy
So did Obama, right before he ordered a bunch of strikes.
If you think Obama is comparable to Kissinger then you might be a Trump voter.
Don’t be campist. Kissinger was obviously worlds worse, but Obama killed an insane amount of civilians with drones and claimed that because they were military aged males they were actually combatants. He double tapped to kill first responders and assassinated a US citizen with a drone strike and no due process. Just because the Republicans are far more evil doesn’t make Obama’s rampant war crimes any less awful.
Well, Trump voters and a whole bunch of dems thought kamala was comparable to trump.
Hey, there’s multiple options. They could be a “stay at home and not bother” voter instead. They are the largest electoral demographic in the US after all.
Yes…”before” is a pretty important qualifier.
The Obama prize can be viewed as an aspirational prize: rewarding rhetoric that was a drastic change from the typical US hawkish rhetoric and policy that had been increasing since Reagan. They ultimately got it wrong…very very wrong…but at least it was based on something.
Kissinger, on the other hand, was tantamount to a war criminal and everybody knew it.
Giving it to Machado just tells us that the prize is fully corrupted, considering her violent rhetoric. Not just that - but the notion that she was promoting democracy is laughable, given her statements about installing a regime that would be resistant or immune to leftist political victories.
If I recall correctly, it was awarded before he actually did anything. It felt like wishful thinking, and then he proceeded to authorize strikes somewhere.
I wish they would, but they have publicly stated that it can’t be transferred, shared, or revoked.
Given Trump’s relation with reality and mental age, the formalism are irrelevant: in his mind if he has the shinny thing then the prize is his.
It just can be physically handed to Trump to keep forever 😉
And the plate says she’s giving it to Trump “symbolically”
She’s giving up a piece of metal in the hopes that it’ll help her country. The country that she’s the rightful president of.
This is Juan Guaido erasure!
