*From Bloomberg News reporter Ott Ummelas and Heidi Taksdal Skjeseth:*
A sense of disbelief gripped Norwegian media and expert community following news that Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado gave her award medal to US President Donald Trump, who had been hankering after the accolade.
“That’s completely unheard of,” Janne Haaland Matlary, a professor with the University of Oslo and a former politician, told public broadcaster NRK. “It’s a total lack of respect for the award, on her part,” she said, calling the act “meaningless” and “pathetic.”
Trump, who has long coveted the peace prize and claims to deserve it for having resolved numerous wars during his second term, accepted the medal from the Venezuelan opposition leader at a White House meeting on Thursday. He has earlier expressed his dissatisfaction with the decision by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
incapableoflove on
Isn’t it obvious? She’s using it as a way to get preferential consideration to be Venezuelas next leader.
It’s funny as she was all for democracy and ‘conquering’ peace a while back..
Rensku on
She ain’t getting the presidency, is she.
Matej1683 on
Can they strip her from nobel prize?
lolwut778 on
Clearly they gave it to a person full of integrity and not power hungry enough to give it away for political favor. Nobel Committee sure knows how to pick em.
Thrasymachus91 on
It was a joke of a prize already, now it has become completely worthless, even stained. Being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize next year will be an insult.
OpLeeftijd on
They should have been stunned when it was awarded to her in the first place. being the opposition does not always mean you are the better choice. A dictator on the one hand and a dictator-buttlicker on the other. Both bad choices, and the Nobel committee awarded one a peace prize.
Jaggiboi on
Maybe the commitee, which swarded tje prize learned a lesson. Just because someone is opposed to a bad guy doesn’t make them a good guy
Baset-tissoult28 on
Revoke the prize.
ItsACaragor on
She always was a piece of shit, the fact that even I knew that and they did not is the only thing stunning in this matter.
ninjamullet on
The world was stunned after Norway awarded the prize to Kissinger, so there’s that.
samuel199228 on
Trump claims to stop wars not so sure on that while threatening to start a war over Greenland on his allies
PandiBong on
That Norwegian committee should all resign in shame for giving the peace prize to that psycho lady. Absolutely useless. I consider them co-responsible in this disaster.
mumwifealcoholic on
And it will not help her.
When you give Trump what he wants, he just comes back for more.
Europe is making the same mistake.
araujoms on
What a pathetic piece of shit.
plount on
It’s the correct move. She knows that she’s dealing with a psychopathic moron with the mind and the wants of a toddler.
Brisbanoch30k on
They gave it to her hoping to appease Trump, and they’ve finished off what dignity there still was in the prize 😕
Lone_Wanderer_N on
No, Norwegians are not stunned. Everyone could see this coming. Giving Trump the medal was the price she had to pay to get a meeting with him. She is trying to influence Trump. Will she succeed? Probably not. Trump just got the peace prize he wanted. He has no more use for her.
elf33d3r on
It can’t be gifted but she did it anyway. So the Nobel peace prize committee should strip her and Trump from it even it can’t be stripped away
Normal-Stick6437 on
After Kissinger, Obama and that lady from Burma that latter supported killings of Rohingya, this is truly, a last nail in coffin of integrity of Nobels committee
Select-Remote4343 on
I think every sane person is stunned.
Difficult-Bug90 on
It’s honestly disgusting.
Haunting_Switch3463 on
Why are they stunned?. It has happened before. The greatest, in my opinion, Norwegian author Knut Hamsun gave his award to Hitler.
RootBinder on
Why are they stunned? We’re talking about a guy who is in the Epstein files more than 600 times in the first 1% of files released. He’s named third most, behind Epstein and Maxwell.
Purple_Hat_51 on
Incredibly poor judgement of character by the committee. How sick must a person be to give this award to Donald Trump?
Cultural-Prompt3949 on
This is classic, he didn’t win the prize so now he does his best to undermine the whole concept of the prize. Ignore.
No-Tomatillo3698 on
Giving her the Nobel peace was clearly a mistake seeing how much of a Trump fan she is
Drakar_och_demoner on
If anything, they are morons to think she wouldn’t use it to her advantage. If you knew anything about her, you wouldn’t expect less. She’s right wing from a wellknown political dynasty.
Fandango_Jones on
I guess your choice of character was poor in this case Norway.
berejser on
Trump is exactly the sort of person that “participation trophies” were created to please.
NoveltyStatus on
Why stunned? The prize is a joke and her win further cemented it. She was not a peace candidate in any sense lol.
RollingDownTheHills on
The world has lost its fucking mind.
eerie_space on
We need to start internalising that previous sociopolitical rules have been thrown out of the window.
PickingANameTookAges on
Tell me the Nobel Peace Prize means nothing without telling me it means nothing!
Just1n_Kees on
Who in their right mind takes this prize seriously though? Has the world forgotten the types that have won this prize previously?
romanohere on
Smart girl,
Rasakka on
So she bought the job of beeing the future us-vassal dictator for Venezuela , right?
nodenaatti on
Wow, Trump really got both the FIFA peace prize and ownership of someone else’s Nobel peace prize? He must be a really selfless individual.
Lower_Profession_682 on
Another proof that the nobel price for peace is purely bullshit
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*From Bloomberg News reporter Ott Ummelas and Heidi Taksdal Skjeseth:*
A sense of disbelief gripped Norwegian media and expert community following news that Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado gave her award medal to US President Donald Trump, who had been hankering after the accolade.
“That’s completely unheard of,” Janne Haaland Matlary, a professor with the University of Oslo and a former politician, told public broadcaster NRK. “It’s a total lack of respect for the award, on her part,” she said, calling the act “meaningless” and “pathetic.”
Trump, who has long coveted the peace prize and claims to deserve it for having resolved numerous wars during his second term, accepted the medal from the Venezuelan opposition leader at a White House meeting on Thursday. He has earlier expressed his dissatisfaction with the decision by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
Isn’t it obvious? She’s using it as a way to get preferential consideration to be Venezuelas next leader.
It’s funny as she was all for democracy and ‘conquering’ peace a while back..
She ain’t getting the presidency, is she.
Can they strip her from nobel prize?
Clearly they gave it to a person full of integrity and not power hungry enough to give it away for political favor. Nobel Committee sure knows how to pick em.
It was a joke of a prize already, now it has become completely worthless, even stained. Being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize next year will be an insult.
They should have been stunned when it was awarded to her in the first place. being the opposition does not always mean you are the better choice. A dictator on the one hand and a dictator-buttlicker on the other. Both bad choices, and the Nobel committee awarded one a peace prize.
Maybe the commitee, which swarded tje prize learned a lesson. Just because someone is opposed to a bad guy doesn’t make them a good guy
Revoke the prize.
She always was a piece of shit, the fact that even I knew that and they did not is the only thing stunning in this matter.
The world was stunned after Norway awarded the prize to Kissinger, so there’s that.
Trump claims to stop wars not so sure on that while threatening to start a war over Greenland on his allies
That Norwegian committee should all resign in shame for giving the peace prize to that psycho lady. Absolutely useless. I consider them co-responsible in this disaster.
And it will not help her.
When you give Trump what he wants, he just comes back for more.
Europe is making the same mistake.
What a pathetic piece of shit.
It’s the correct move. She knows that she’s dealing with a psychopathic moron with the mind and the wants of a toddler.
They gave it to her hoping to appease Trump, and they’ve finished off what dignity there still was in the prize 😕
No, Norwegians are not stunned. Everyone could see this coming. Giving Trump the medal was the price she had to pay to get a meeting with him. She is trying to influence Trump. Will she succeed? Probably not. Trump just got the peace prize he wanted. He has no more use for her.
It can’t be gifted but she did it anyway. So the Nobel peace prize committee should strip her and Trump from it even it can’t be stripped away
After Kissinger, Obama and that lady from Burma that latter supported killings of Rohingya, this is truly, a last nail in coffin of integrity of Nobels committee
I think every sane person is stunned.
It’s honestly disgusting.
Why are they stunned?. It has happened before. The greatest, in my opinion, Norwegian author Knut Hamsun gave his award to Hitler.
Why are they stunned? We’re talking about a guy who is in the Epstein files more than 600 times in the first 1% of files released. He’s named third most, behind Epstein and Maxwell.
Incredibly poor judgement of character by the committee. How sick must a person be to give this award to Donald Trump?
This is classic, he didn’t win the prize so now he does his best to undermine the whole concept of the prize. Ignore.
Giving her the Nobel peace was clearly a mistake seeing how much of a Trump fan she is
If anything, they are morons to think she wouldn’t use it to her advantage. If you knew anything about her, you wouldn’t expect less. She’s right wing from a wellknown political dynasty.
I guess your choice of character was poor in this case Norway.
Trump is exactly the sort of person that “participation trophies” were created to please.
Why stunned? The prize is a joke and her win further cemented it. She was not a peace candidate in any sense lol.
The world has lost its fucking mind.
We need to start internalising that previous sociopolitical rules have been thrown out of the window.
Tell me the Nobel Peace Prize means nothing without telling me it means nothing!
Who in their right mind takes this prize seriously though? Has the world forgotten the types that have won this prize previously?
Smart girl,
So she bought the job of beeing the future us-vassal dictator for Venezuela , right?
Wow, Trump really got both the FIFA peace prize and ownership of someone else’s Nobel peace prize? He must be a really selfless individual.
Another proof that the nobel price for peace is purely bullshit
Only Nobel price in sciences are relevant