Nobel Peace Prize 2025 live updates: Venezuelan politician Maria Corina Machado wins

He'll ask to see it and then just steal it

The best predictor for future behaviour is past behaviour

Bookmarked! I want to see how accurate this becomes. That's all he wanted so he can one up Obama.

And will also say that he's never heard of this Alfred Nobel guy.

There's a complication for Trump. He hates Maduro. The US in general (by which I mean administrations of both major political parties) wants him out. Machado is the major candidate of the opposition to Maduro. She also would give away Venezuela's oil reserves, which the US definitely wants.

So the Nobel committee just awarded the prize to someone who 1) is hardly a voice for peace, and 2) Trump generally needs to support. Now, #2 is based on Trump not being a shortsighted idiot, and we all know how that works out.

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Sounds about right for the institution who gave Kissinger a Peace Prize

She comes from one of the richest families in Venezuela, that owned large steel industry. The socialist government took them over.

THIS ^^^^^^^

Oh wow, when you hover over Estonia in the list of countries represented in the first article, it's a national broadcast article about Ruuben Kaalep, who somehow managed to get into parliament for one term.

Now I do not know many Estonian politicians closely, but about a decade ago, someone who was part of a group I was drinking with one evening, managed to invite him to join us. We promptly ditched both of them when he... spent quite a bit of time talking about how Hitler was doing the right thing. Ah, and the person who invited him? Became the next lead of the nazi youth group Kaalep used to lead before he went to parliament. I'm amazed she hasn't gotten into parliament yet, since I remember her being dumb as a bag of rocks too, but I guess it was sexism, because I don't recall EKRE having a lot of female parliament members usually - both the current ones are wives of prominent male party members.

Not particularly relevant perhaps, but hey, I'm still grossed out by the fact that nazis infiltrated my birthday.

Well, she's actually on the same page. Machado has supported an American military intervention to oust the Maduro government.

She’s a far right escualido, a Trump fluffer.

I hope they're trolling him, and I hope it hurts him deeply

That's how he'll see it for sure, because he's a narcissistic moron. But actually, it looks as though the individual in question is someone who is as opposed to the current Venezuelan regime as Trump is.

In principle this should be a good outcome for Trump, if you believe that his values are what he says they are. However I don't think he could even point to Venezuela on a map of Venezuela, let alone have any interest in who Maria Corina Machado is.

Trump logic: Start war with Venezuela and complain that stupid committee gave peace price to country at war.

because it's Friday?

And this from the press release:

In its long history, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has honoured brave women and men who have stood up to repression, who have carried the hope of freedom in prison cells, on the streets and in public squares, and who have shown by their actions that peaceful resistance can change the world. [...]

When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognise courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist. Democracy depends on people who refuse to stay silent, who dare to step forward despite grave risk, and who remind us that freedom must never be taken for granted, but must always be defended – with words, with courage and with determination.

Ironically, she is a major opposition leader in Venezuela, so if Trump continues to bomb Maduro's navy, she gets closer to power. She is also a big fan of Trump and has called Thatcher the politician she most admires.

Not really she’s a far right POS, it further degrades the Nobel Peace Prize. Which IMO is worthless given they have it to Kissinger.

Especially ones calling for their country to be bombed AND be more like Thatcher

As I noted in another comment, she's a major opposition party leader in Venezuela, so attacks on Maduro's navy have some chance of putting her closer to power.

It's still just a bunch of politicians trying not to break an arm jerking themselves off.

He will get it next year, no worries. Or there will be a extraordinary award just for him in between.

I'd have preferred for the prize to go to the Freedom Flotillas.

Pax America

The word peace should also be in ""

Oh, no, he would have happily taken it, and crowed about how it was always meant for him anyway, because he deserved it more than anyone, and he would have actually believed it. Remember when he took that wounded soldier's Purple Heart, because "I've always wanted one of these?"

She deserves it as much as Kissinger and Shimon Peres deserve it.

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