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Did anyone really think President Donald Trump would be handed the Nobel Peace Prize, no matter how many wars he ended or lives he saved?
The Nobel Committee announced Friday that Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.
"She is receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela, and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy," the committee declared.
Machado, 58, an industrial engineer, has been in hiding since August 2024, defying threats from Nicolás Maduro’s regime, which has repeatedly threatened her arrest.
She remains in Venezuela, resolute in her fight.
The decision sidelined President Trump, despite his unprecedented record of brokering peace in eight conflicts since January 2025: Armenia-Azerbaijan, Democratic Republic of Congo-Rwanda, Israel-Iran, India-Pakistan, Cambodia-Thailand, and Hamas-Israel, plus Egypt-Ethiopia and Serbia-Kosovo during his first term.
Just 24 hours before the announcement, Trump secured a "miraculous" deal to free all remaining hostages and end the Gaza war, earning praise as the "President of Peace."
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Allies hailed his work as historic, yet the Nobel Committee looked away.
Nobel Committee chair Jørgen Watne Frydnes offered a flimsy excuse for the snub, suggesting Trump’s media presence disqualified him.
"In the long history of the Nobel Peace Prize, I think this committee has seen many types of campaign, media attention," Frydnes said. "We receive thousands and thousands of letters every year of people wanting to say what, for them, leads to peace. This committee sits in a room filled with the portraits of all laureates, and that room is filled with both courage and integrity. So we base only our decision on the work and the will of Alfred Nobel."
Translation: Trump’s personality overshadows his results.
White House Communications Director Steven Cheung fired back, stating, "The Nobel Committee proved they place politics over peace."
The prize, worth 11 million Swedish crowns ($1.2 million), will be presented in Oslo on December 10, marking Alfred Nobel’s death anniversary.
Trump’s 2020 nomination by Swedish lawmaker Magnus Jacobson for mediating Kosovo-Serbia peace and normalizing Israel-UAE relations went ignored, much like his 2025 efforts.
Meanwhile, the committee once awarded Barack Obama the prize for merely winning an election, only for him to launch wars and drop over 26,000 bombs on seven nations.
The Nobel Committee’s decision reeks of bias, proving once again they’d rather clutch pearls than reward results.
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