# Nobel Peace Prize Announced; It Doesn't Go to Trump **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [October 10, 2025, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845 "2025-10-10T09:13:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/1 "2025-10-10T09:13:52Z")
It’s going to María Corina Machado, Venezuela’s opposition leader. From CNN: [https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/nobel-peace-prize-10-10-25](https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/nobel-peace-prize-10-10-25) Going to be a few ketchup-stained walls at the White House this morning. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/2 "2025-10-10T09:19:23Z")
Giving it to a Venezuelan woman for promoting democracy and opposing dictatorship will trigger Trump in about 14 different ways. Countdown to massive new tariffs against Norway… ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/3 "2025-10-10T09:19:25Z")
Well, now Trump has to invade Venezuela (or else shoot down every boat or plane leaving ghe country) to prevent her from accespting the award. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Ancient\_Nerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed655f/32.png) [@Ancient\_Nerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ancient_Nerd)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/4 "2025-10-10T09:25:29Z")
Isn’t he already doing that? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/5 "2025-10-10T09:26:22Z")
Isn’t she the rival of Nicolas Maduro, one of Trump’s biggest bugbears? Doesn’t that technically make her Trump’s ally? My bet is that he going to claim this as a victory for Trumpism and let it lie. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/6 "2025-10-10T09:34:05Z")
The Chairman of the Nobel Peace Committee will probably soon be indicted for something or other and extradited to the US. Not a US citizen and not even a resident? Doesn’t matter. He’s as guilty as Comey and Letitia James of exactly the same crime: failure to worship the Orange Peril. ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/7 "2025-10-10T09:46:58Z")
Swedes rejoice that they don’t need to wear the responsibility of this one… …all the while unaware that Trump is so far gone that he couldn’t tell the difference between them and Norway anyways. Oslo and Stockholm are both invaded next week all a part of his “takeover Greenland” plan. Cheers to Machado for the win. Venezuelan opposition sounds like a tough gig. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/8 "2025-10-10T09:51:53Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Isn’t she the rival of Nicolas Maduro, one of Trump’s biggest bugbears? Doesn’t that technically make her Trump’s ally? Trump doesn’t have ‘allies’; just people who are useful to him until they contradict or upstage him, after which they are mortal enemies like John Bolton or Michael Cohen. In this case, Maria Conchita Alonso screwed him twice by both stealing his Nobel Peace Prize and submarining his screen test as her costar in his would-be breakout role in [_Dark Moon Rising_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1231593/), sabotaging his burgeoning career as an action-horror-romance star. She’s definitely on ‘The List’. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/9 "2025-10-10T09:55:37Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > It’s going to María Corina Machado, Venezuela’s opposition leader. Now I barely know of her and her work. I’ll accept unconditionally that the award is merited. But the symbolism is absolutely exquisite. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/10 "2025-10-10T10:10:41Z")
I apologize for not laughing at your jokes, but I’m so terrified that this will sabotage the Israel-Gaza ceasefire agreement and hostage release that I don’t have much of a sense of humor right now. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/11 "2025-10-10T10:20:08Z")
Frankly that ceasefire agreement is balanced on the head of a pin along with an indeterminate number of dancing angels and the likelihood of surviving past the next ‘phase’ is slim-to-none. Hopefully it holds together long enough for the return of the still-living hostages but I wouldn’t count past that because neither Trump nor Netanyahu have any real incentive to continue with it. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/12 "2025-10-10T10:36:18Z")
Strangely, a John Goodman line from “West Wing” came to mind: > _Find her and find her fast. But if ~~Zoey Bartlet turns up dead~~ I don’t get that f------ Nobel Peace Prize, I’m going to blow the hell out of something, and God only knows what happens next._ —President Glenn Allen Walken ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/13 "2025-10-10T10:45:26Z")
I looked in on a predominantly-RWNJ message board to see their reactions. Here they are: > [@](#): > > I would like Trump to get the Nobel Peace Prize, but that committee gave it to Obama, so obviously there is something extremely wrong intellectually or morally or both, with those people. > Its hard to take the award seriously… [_sic_] > [@](#): > > The Nobel Peace Prize is a joke, has been for decades. > [@](#): > > The Nobel is a biased joke. Trump is a true peacemaker… [_sic_] > > The world needs to **create a new fair unbiased peace prize** [_sic_] that has some credibility. > > [snip, as regarding how Obama did not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.] > > Trump has brokered 7 international Peace deals and created ME Abraham accords in just 9 months along with major peace deals happening in Gaza and still working on Ukraine war. > This makes the Nobel committee a total joke…. [_sic_] Just thought I’d share. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/14 "2025-10-10T10:50:06Z")
Only an idiot would think a cease fire so freshly signed that the ink is still wet would possibly be grounds for such a prize. Sure, it’s the most politicized award with the biggest history of bad choices for winners. Diplomacy leading to an agreement on the scale of say the Good Friday Accords, sure. Not a cease fire that at best might set the situation back to the status quo ante. I know nothing about this year’s recipient. But I’m willing to assume that she deserves it even if the award is in part a political statement. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/15 "2025-10-10T10:50:23Z")
I guess if Trump had won it, he wouldn’t need to bother about Gaza/Israel/Ukraine etc any more. The Nobel prizes can’t be revoked. Maybe next year. If he deserves it, sure. ---
**Author:** ![mozchron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mozchron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mozchron)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/16 "2025-10-10T11:14:38Z")
They should just tell trump he won, maybe buy a gilded medal off Temu, and have ChatGPT invent a news announcement he can watch. He’ll never know the difference. I find it hilarious that he keeps lobbying for the Nobel. They fucking HATE him. And direct lobbying for the prize is the best way not to get it, even if one was “deserving”. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/17 "2025-10-10T11:15:46Z")
Maybe. I think the Israeli public and the Israeli military are weary of the war and of its effects, and would be happy for a few years of peace (or God willing, even more than a few years), and that every day that passes will make it harder for Bibi to restart the fighting on a whim. But I guess we’ll see. Anyway, I kind of wish Trump had been given the prize. Not because I like him or because I think he deserves it, but because it would have been one less thing to worry about. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/18 "2025-10-10T11:23:39Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Isn’t she the rival of Nicolas Maduro, one of Trump’s biggest bugbears? Doesn’t that technically make her Trump’s ally? > “The enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s enemy. No more. No less.” - _The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries_ Or less snarkily, two people being opposed to someone else doesn’t make them on the same side. And Trump is a malignant narcissist who is on _nobody’s_ side but his own. As well as a racist misogynist rapist and xenophobe. And worst of all, she committed the worst possible of sins: she got something _he_ wanted instead of him. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/19 "2025-10-10T11:44:06Z")
If the rumors are true, and she _is_ hiding in a/the [**US Embassy**](https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/maria-corina-machado-nobel-peace-prize-2025-venezuela-activist-5394486), it’s a safe bet her Eviction Notice is forthcoming. She’ll likely be extraordinarily rendered to Nick Maduro’s front porch. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/20 "2025-10-10T12:12:29Z")
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