Trump says he will meet Machado — and would accept Nobel Peace Prize from her; The Washington Post, January 9, 2026

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, The Washington Post; Trump says he will meet Machado — and would accept Nobel Peace Prize from her

[Kip Currier: It's unfathomable for me to understand how someone could ethically and intellectually accept the Nobel Peace Prize from the individual who won that prize, knowing that the Nobel Committee members made the decision to bestow it on the person they deemed most deserved it.

Fortunately, this scenario remains in the realm of a thought experiment because of Nobel policy that prizes "may not be shared or transferred."]

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"President Donald Trump said he would accept the Nobel Peace Prize if this year’s prize winner, María Corina Machado, offered it to him when she meets with him next week, but Nobel officials quickly announced Friday that the prize may not be shared or transferred.

“Once a Nobel Prize is announced, it cannot be revoked, shared or transferred to others,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee and the Norwegian Nobel Institute said Friday. “The decision is final and stands for all time.”

“I understand she’s coming in next week sometime, and I look forward to saying hello to her,” Trump said of the Venezuelan opposition leader during an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity that aired Thursday. Trump added that he heard Machado wants to give him the prize, and that it would be “a great honor.”"