# 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:** 11
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2026, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/202 "2026-01-16T22:04:46Z")
You should see how they’re celebrating it on Xitter. Some are even going so far as to say he won it or it was awarded to him. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2026, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/203 "2026-01-16T22:27:02Z")
I hope you’re pointing out it’s only a participation medal. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2026, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/204 "2026-01-16T22:28:55Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > What has she actually given up? Nothing. Trump is not the sort to actually comprehend how little he got out of it and what sort of mockery it opened him to. > > If she gets anything out of it, it’s better than what she would have gotten otherwise. And all for the price of a small chunk of metal. Apparently Machado is getting nothing whatsoever out of it. Arguably less than nothing. > **[Trump Snubs Machado After Explaining Why He Took Her Nobel Prize](https://newrepublic.com/post/205400/trump-machado-nobel-prize-venezuela)** > > It seems the Venezuelan opposition leader’s gambit hasn’t paid off. > It seems that Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado’s ultimate show of fealty to President Trump will get her nothing. > > Machado met with Trump on Thursday and brought along her Nobel Peace Prize, [offering it](https://x.com/Acyn/status/2012226125767102582?s=20) to the president. It was clearly a last-ditch attempt to earn a larger role in any upcoming regime change effort in the wake of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s kidnapping. But Trump couldn’t care less. > > “You just called Machado a ‘very nice person,’” reporters asked Trump Friday afternoon. “Why align yourself with [interim President] Delcy Rodríguez and the remnants of the Maduro regime, not with Machado, who has the support of the Venezuelan people?” ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2026, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/205 "2026-01-16T22:28:58Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Some are even going so far as to say he won it or it was awarded to him. It’s like saying you own a sports car because your neighbor let you have the price sticker that came off the car. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2026, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/206 "2026-01-16T22:34:38Z")
Well, at least it puts winning an Olympic medal back into the ‘achievable’ category for most of us ---
**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:** [January 16, 2026, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/207 "2026-01-16T22:50:25Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Well, at least it puts winning an Olympic medal back into the ‘achievable’ category for most of us   Only for those of us willing to threaten Olympic medal winners with violence if they don’t give us their medals. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2026, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/208 "2026-01-16T23:01:07Z")
Loyalty, respect, it only flows one way, and he is _entitled_ to it, he owes you nothing back. He _will_ be angry if you don’t show it to him. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2026, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/209 "2026-01-16T23:59:40Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > To piss off those of us who didn’t think he should get it. I’ve seen MAGAs posting that they think it’s stupid but it pissed off the liberals so yay Trump. For most, that’s the only thing that matters. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2026, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/210 "2026-01-17T01:20:44Z")
She did get a presidential swag bag, right? That’s…something. > [@Dorjan](#): > > That would be Edmundo González. Yep. I’ve been digging more into Venezuelan politics, and it’s much more complicated than various news stories had led me to believe. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2026, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/211 "2026-01-17T01:47:33Z")
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**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2026, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/212 "2026-01-17T02:28:47Z")
This is AWESOME! ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2026, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/213 "2026-01-17T04:34:24Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > Apparently Machado is getting nothing whatsoever out of it. Arguably less than nothing. It affects the probability she, or her party, will appear on the next Venezuelan presidential election ballots. That election is scheduled for 2030. If the Democratic ticket wins in 2028 and takes office in 2029, I doubt it matters. But if MAGA still occupies the White House in 2030, my guess is that her chances increase a bit due to having groveled before Donald Trump.. Some might say that the Republicans will not care, or that they prefer the existing one party rule. I will agree, but her party’s chances are now so low that shaking things up a bit made sense. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2026, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/214 "2026-01-17T04:44:00Z")
> [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](#): > > Did she give him the money that came with the prize? No. The big risk she took was that Trump would demand the money. He did not. How do I know? I know because this administration leaks to the big newspapers. There has been no report of Trump asking for, or getting, the money. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2026, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/215 "2026-01-17T05:51:46Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > This is AWESOME! About Knut Hamsun? Sure, if true. But he was quite pro-Nazi. I cannot find any credible evidence he was trying to save anyone when he gave his Nobel medal to Goebbels. From what I read, he may have done it to get to talk to Hitler, but that doesn’t mean he necessarily wanted to get Nazi policies moderated. After the war he was tried for treason. Did he claim it then? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2026, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/216 "2026-01-17T13:14:36Z")
What the hell is this ‘Humman Printer’ stuff about? Ya gotta sign up to read it. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2026, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/217 "2026-01-17T13:30:23Z")
Don’t make me. Please just tell us what it is. It’s early. I haven’t eaten breakfast yet… ---
**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:** [January 17, 2026, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/218 "2026-01-17T13:34:14Z")
Meet Natalie Harp: > **[Where's Donald Trump's 'human printer', 'love struck' Natalie Harp these days?...](https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/wheres-donald-trumps-human-printer-love-struck-natalie-harp-these-days/articleshow/119916386.cms)** > > US News: President Donald Trump's obsessively devoted aide Natalie Harp, the 33-year-old woman who runs behind the president with a printer to get printouts of. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2026, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/219 "2026-01-17T13:38:24Z")
Wow. She is one twisted person. Holy shit. @ThelmaLou . She is basically a person that follows It around and prints out anything good she can find about him. And it sounds like she has a crush on him 🤢 So, she’s insane. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2026, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/220 "2026-01-17T13:40:41Z")
Huh, I managed to read it without signing up. Basically there is a Trump obsessed fan who’s job as part of his enterage is to carry around a portable printer and regularly hand him flattering things about him that she got off the internet. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2026, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/221 "2026-01-17T13:42:02Z")
yeah, thanks Buck. It wanted me to sign up. We got it though. Just another insane supporter. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845.md?page=12)