Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado is leading a demonstration this Friday against the reinstatement of authoritarian President Maduro.
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The White House criticized the Nobel Committee on Friday after it refused to select President Donald Trump for the organization’s vaunted peace prize.
But the actual honoree, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, said she was dedicating the award in part to Trump for supporting his efforts to promote democracy in her country.
Machado said in an X post that her cause to achieve 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 resolute support of our cause!” she wrote.
Machado’s call came less than three hours after White House communications director Steven Cheung claimed that by snubbing Trump, the Nobel Committee “has proven it puts politics above peace.”
Trump has said for years that he deserves the prize, which has been awarded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee more than 100 times since 1901 to honor a person’s work promoting peace.
He was also openly critical of the awarding of the prize to former President Barack Obama in 2009.
“They punished Obama for doing absolutely nothing other than destroying our country,” Trump said Thursday.
In recent months, Trump has frequently said that he has ended seven wars – a claim disputed by fact-checkers.
After Israel and Hamas agreed to the first phase of a peace plan this week, Trump claimed: “That would be number eight.”
A number of Trump’s Republican allies have expressed support for the award, even though the nomination period for the 2025 award ended less than two weeks into his current term as president.
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