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Posted on 01/18/2026 5:47:02 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The Nobel Foundation, the group responsible for administrating the various Nobel prizes, on Sunday issued a clarification around the rules for handing out the prizes after Venezuela‘s opposition leader María Corina Machado offered her peace prize to President Donald Trump, which he accepted.
“The Foundation upholds Alfred Nobel’s will and its stipulations,” the foundation wrote in a statement posted to X on Sunday. “It states that the prizes shall be awarded to those who ‘have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind,’ and it specifies who has the right to award each respective prize.”
“A prize can therefore not, even symbolically, be passed on or further distributed,” the foundation stressed.
Newsweek reached out to the White House by email outside of normal business hours on Sunday morning for comment.
Why It Matters
The saga surrounding Trump’s desire for the Nobel Peace Prize has carried on throughout both his administrations, stemming from the fact that President Barack Obama received the award in 2009, just one year into his first administration.
Trump made a renewed push for the prize during his second term with an emphasis on ending international conflicts. By the end of the first year of his second term, he claimed to have enacted eight peace deals to end conflicts in various regions, including conflicts between Armenia and Azerbaijan, India and Pakistan, Thailand and Cambodia, and Israel and Hamas.
However, some of the nations involved in those deals dispute the degree to which Trump was actually involved, and the deal between Thailand and Cambodia collapsed, forcing Trump to pursue a second deal just six weeks after they had signed the first deal he put together.
Ultimately, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize went to Machado for her role in seeking to advance democracy in Venezuela.
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whine, whine, ...
LOL! They claim they own the prize and it cannot be given to anyone else.
The medal is on loan to the recipient.
Bogus argument!
Yeah, whatever. Have a nice day!
Norskies have big-time Butt-Hurt?
Maybe they can go down to the local Mosque and get an application of salve-ation.
Hilarious.
<< “It states that the prizes shall be awarded to those who ‘have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind,’ >>
Right, like Arafat and Obama and Gore.
I can only say that if someone pursues the silly, very politically biased Nobel Peace Prize (remember they awarded it to Obama before he had ever done anything), then they are on a fools errand.
I think Obama got it after 11 days in office.
The prize is no longer worth any more than a kiddie baseball team participation trophy.
If she really wants to do something worthy of plaudits she should expose the Maduro regime’s role in election theft, worldwide. Quickly, while the cameras are still running and the channels are open.
LOL!
Trump should gift the Nobel Committee that garbage truck he campaigned in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWSQc6aDmHE
They’re awfully defensive ‘bout it.
Hilarious and PETTY!
Nobody cares what the Nobel Foundation says anymore!
It was a very Nobel gestor on her part, that she did this and that’s all.
>> The Foundation upholds Alfred Nobel’s will and its stipulations
In their dreams...
Oh, the irony can be so Ironic.
Machado gifts the prize to the guy that actually removed Maduro. SOmething that Machado did NOT do.
Sorry, wrong thread.
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