Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Colina Machado is leading a demonstration this Friday against the re-election of authoritarian President Maduro.
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The White House on Friday criticized the Nobel committee after it refused to select President Donald Trump for its prize for peace.
But the actual recipient, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Colina Machado, said she would dedicate part of the award to Trump for supporting his efforts to promote democracy in her country.
Machado told the X-Post that achieving 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 unwavering support of our cause!” she wrote.
Machado’s shout-out came less than three hours after White House communications director Stephen Chan claimed that by thumbing his nose at Trump, “the Nobel committee has proven that it prioritizes politics over peace.”
President Trump has long maintained that he deserves the award, which has been awarded more than 100 times by the Norwegian Nobel Committee since 1901 to honor a single person’s work promoting peace.
He has also publicly criticized former President Barack Obama for winning the award in 2009.
“They gave a medal to Mr. Obama who has done nothing but destroy our country,” Trump said Thursday.
In recent months, President Trump has frequently said he ended seven wars, a claim that has been disputed by fact-checkers.
“This is number eight,” President Trump claimed after Israel and Hamas agreed this week on the first phase of their peace plan.
Many of President Trump’s Republican allies have claimed the award, but the deadline for nominations for the 2025 award ended less than two weeks into the current presidential term.
