Rejecting the Nobel Peace Prize to Trump angers the White House; Machado praises him

On Friday, the White House criticized the Nobel Committee after it refused to choose a president for the award Donald Trump For the vaunted organization Peace Prize.

But the actual winner of the award, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, said she was dedicating the award in part to Trump to support her efforts to promote democracy in her country.

Machado said in the X post that her cause for freedom and democracy depends on Trump and other key allies.

“I dedicate this award to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!” I wrote.

Machado’s shout-out came less than three hours after White House communications director Stephen Cheung claimed that by ignoring Trump, the Nobel committee “proved that it is putting politics over peace.”

Trump has said for years that he deserves the prize, which the Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded more than 100 times since 1901 to honor the work of one person to promote peace.

He also publicly criticized the former president Barack Obama Receiving the award in 2009.

“They gave it to Obama because he’s done absolutely nothing but destroy our country,” Trump said Thursday.

In recent months, Trump has repeatedly said he has ended seven wars — a claim that has actually happened Disputed by Fact checkers.

After Israel and Hamas agreed on the first phase of the peace plan this week, Trump claimed that “this will be the eighth phase.”

A number of Trump’s Republican allies supported him receiving the award, although… Nomination deadline The 2025 award expired less than two weeks into his current presidential term.