Washington Post
15 January 2026
Machado’s Nobel gamble: A peace offering to win over a wary Trump
The Venezuelan opposition leader said she handed her 2025 award to the president, an extraordinary move to regain his favor as he warms to the remnants of the Maduro regime.
By Michael Birnbaum and María Luisa Paúl
President Donald Trump on Thursday accepted a Nobel Peace Prize medal from Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, a striking bid by the current laureate to sway a U.S. president who recently declined to support her challenge to Venezuela’s ruling regime.
The article goes on for many more paragraphs and you can read the entire Washington Post article at:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/01/15/machado-trump-nobel-prize/
Remember, President Donald Trump famously said: "I deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. Nobody deserves it more than me!"
Somehow the WaPo failed to include in this article that now that Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado handed over her 2025 Nobel Prize award to the president at her meeting with him today, “The Donald” has directed that instead of playing “Hail to the Chief” upon his arrival at events, the Marine Corps Band will play his new more appropriate anthem: Mac Davis’ - “Oh Lord It's Hard To Be Humble When You’re Perfect in Every Way.”
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