Norwegian lawmakers rip Trump accepting Machado Nobel prize: 'Embarrassing and damaging'

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Source: The Hill

01/16/26 1:40 PM ET


Norwegian Labour Party lawmaker Raymond Johansen on Thursday ripped President Trump for accepting the Nobel Peace Prize from Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado. Machado presented Trump with the prize Thursday during a White House meeting after months of lauding the president in his push to oust regime leader Nicolás Maduro and for his war on drug cartels.

“This is incredibly embarrassing and damaging for one of the world’s most recognized and important awards,” Johansen wrote in a Thursday post on Facebook. “The awarding of the award is now so politicized and potentially dangerous that it can easily legitimize an anti-peace prize development.”

“Unbelievable that she actually gave the award to Trump. What on earth is the Nobel Committee going to say? To be continued,” he added.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee indirectly addressed the transfer of awards Thursday explaining that the prize could “transfer” owners but not awardees. “Once a Nobel Prize is announced, it cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others. The decision is final and stands for all time,” the Nobel Peace Center wrote on social platform X. “A medal can change owners, but the title of a Nobel Peace Prize laureate cannot,” the statement continues.

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/international/5692902-norway-trump-machado-nobel-peace-prize-transfer/

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1. Everything trump touches dies

Even the cherished Nobel Prize.

America has unleashed satan on the world.

[Wicked Blue]

2. He should have gotted the Dumbbell Prize

[SpankMe]

3. The Nobel committee should rescind Machado's prize

She's sullied it. Even though the Nobel committee can't get the actual medal back, they should rescind the award in the record books and declare it as "not-awarded" for that year.

[SunSeeker]

5. It's like she gave it to Hitler. It perverts the purpose of the prize. She awarded his deadly invasion of Venezuela.

I wish the committee had not awarded Machado the Peace Prize. She has zero sense. Did she really think she would get anything from Trump for giving him the medal? I'm so disgusted with her.

[vapor2]

8. That's what I say and why not?

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9. No, declare it simply as declined.

[Buddyzbuddy]

4. Be forewarned, orange fatman is coming for your kid's Happy Meals.

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6. There is no such thing as "giving away your prize"

The prize is recognition by the Nobel committee. Their published record still shows Machado as recipient of the prize. As for the medal that's a memorial trinket, and people have been giving away and selling their medals since Napoleon started giving them out instead of paying his soldiers in looting privileges. I believe Orange Juicifer already has several purple hearts and maybe other medals given to him by MAGA US servicemen, but there is no official record of this and the original recipients remain the recipients of record. You can in some cases refuse a prize -- it depends on the rules established by the prize giving organization -- but in that case you almost always have to do so before it's awarded, so that the prize can go to someone else or get an appropriate asterisk next to it in the record.

[SunSeeker]

7. Of course. But her giving the medal to Trump rewards his invasion and murder of Venezuelans.

Not to mention the war crimes he has been commiting in blowing those boats to pieces and killing those defensless Venezuelans aboard.

It totally subverts the purpose of the Peace Prize. Shameful.