# 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:** 12
**Author:** ![Chad\_Sudan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chad_sudan/32/4509_2.png) [@Chad\_Sudan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_Sudan)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2026, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/222 "2026-01-17T14:17:02Z")
Imagine if Machado had announced: “I will be presenting Mr. Trump with the Nobel Peace Prize **at my inauguration.** ” ---
**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 17, 2026, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/223 "2026-01-17T15:16:48Z")
It feels like she’s been doing it longer than since 2019. But I did remember her from His first term. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2026, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/224 "2026-01-18T02:47:46Z")
Trump is getting lots more awards and trophies (this is hillarious) … > **[The major awards keep pouring in for Trump](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/1/17/2363937/-The-major-awards-keep-pouring-in-for-Trump?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web)** > > Hot off his receipt of the Nobel and FIFA peace prizes, other award winners are lining up to give Trump their medals. Of course his new toy is his new Nobel — given to him by actual winner Maria Corina Machado. That has triggered a flood of new... ---
**Author:** ![rippingtons\_fan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rippingtons_fan/32/11767_2.png) [@rippingtons\_fan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rippingtons_fan)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2026, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/225 "2026-01-18T03:11:07Z")
Will Trump expect a NOBEL PEACE PRIZE for 2026 as well? ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2026, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/226 "2026-01-18T05:10:33Z")
> [@rippingtons\_fan](#): > > Will Trump expect a NOBEL PEACE PRIZE for 2026 as well?. Probably expect it every year. In fact, he’ll expect them to rename it the Trump Peace Prize. ---
**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 18, 2026, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/227 "2026-01-18T22:54:10Z")
> **[Olga Nesterova (@onestpress.onestnetwork.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/onestpress.onestnetwork.com/post/3mcq3gugoh22j)** > > Norwegian PM Støre says Trump repeatedly raises—complains about, pleads for, and demands—the Nobel Peace Prize every time they meet. Støre gives same answer each time: decision is made independently by Norwegian Nobel Committee, with no role for... ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2026, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/228 "2026-01-18T23:16:32Z")
Again, it’s embarrassing that he brings this up every time he speaks to the Norwegian prime minister. ---
**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2026, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/229 "2026-01-19T00:09:53Z")
The next time he brings it up, she can say, “…but you already _have_ a Nobel medal….” ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2026, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/230 "2026-01-19T00:33:09Z")
“There are many Nobel laureates, but you have a FIFA peace prize. Nobody else in the world has one of those. Why would you need a Nobel?” ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2026, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/231 "2026-01-19T00:42:43Z")
Again, this is the POTUS, not a small child who needs to be soothed so they will go to bed and wait until morning to open their presents. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2026, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/232 "2026-01-19T00:51:15Z")
> [@rippingtons\_fan](#): > > Will Trump expect a NOBEL PEACE PRIZE for 2026 as well? As well? He hasn’t got one ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2026, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/233 "2026-01-19T00:54:28Z")
> [@rippingtons\_fan](#): > > Will Trump expect a NOBEL PEACE PRIZE for 2026 as well? He still hasn’t got one in the first place. [Nobel Foundation says peace prize can’t be symbolically passed on after Machado gave hers to Trump | Just The News](https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/nobel-foundation-says-peace-prize-cant-be-passed-after-machado-gave-hers) He can’t get one, even symbolically. “Prizes “shall be awarded to those who ‘have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind,’ and it specifies who has the right to award each respective prize. A prize can therefore not, even symbolically, be passed on or further distributed,” the foundation says”. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2026, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/234 "2026-01-19T01:01:05Z")
> [@rippingtons\_fan](#): > > Will Trump expect a NOBEL PEACE PRIZE for 2026 as well? > [@Czarcasm](#): > > As well? He hasn’t got one > [@Czarcasm](#): > > He still hasn’t got one in the first place. Clearly, they meant _in his_ eyes. ---
**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 19, 2026, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/235 "2026-01-19T01:03:32Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > [Nobel Foundation says peace prize can’t be symbolically passed on after Machado gave hers to Trump | Just The News](https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/nobel-foundation-says-peace-prize-cant-be-passed-after-machado-gave-hers) He can’t get one, even symbolically. > “Prizes “shall be awarded to those who ‘have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind,’ and it specifies who has the right to award each respective prize. A prize can therefore not, even symbolically, be passed on or further distributed,” the foundation says”. I bet that officials at the Nobel Foundation are mightily pissed at Machado for her groveling sycophancy that undermines the value and dignity of the Nobel prize. They probably regret awarding it to her and wish that Nobel medals were equipped with a self-destruct mechanism! ---
**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 19, 2026, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/236 "2026-01-19T06:23:57Z")
I have just heard on the news… BREAKING! The Best in Show winner at the 2025 Westminster Dog Show - Monty, a Gian Schnauzer, has decided to gift his Best In Show medal to Trump. Monty was quoted as saying “Ruff Ruff Ruff” which Trump understood to mean “You’re the best ever sir, and I think you deserve this more than me.” ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2026, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/237 "2026-01-19T07:56:45Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > The Best in Show winner at the 2025 Westminster Dog Show - Monty, a Gian Schnauzer, has decided to gift his Best In Show medal to Trump. That was one of those in the Daily Kos item I linked to above. Here’s another [link](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/1/17/2363937/-The-major-awards-keep-pouring-in-for-Trump?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web) to save you from having to scroll up. ---
**Author:** ![Mops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mops/32/16494_2.png) [@Mops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mops)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2026, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/238 "2026-01-19T08:33:48Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > > [@Czarcasm](#): > > > > [Nobel Foundation says peace prize can’t be symbolically passed on after Machado gave hers to Trump | Just The News](https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/nobel-foundation-says-peace-prize-cant-be-passed-after-machado-gave-hers) He can’t get one, even symbolically. > > “Prizes “shall be awarded to those who ‘have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind,’ and it specifies who has the right to award each respective prize. A prize can therefore not, even symbolically, be passed on or further distributed,” the foundation says”. > > I bet that officials at the Nobel Foundation are mightily pissed at Machado for her groveling sycophancy that undermines the value and dignity of the Nobel prize. They probably regret awarding it to her and wish that Nobel medals were equipped with a self-destruct mechanism! There is precedent regarding Nobel Prizes BTW: [Knut Hamsun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut_Hamsun) gifted his Nobel Prize medal (literature, 1920) to [Joseph Goebbels](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels) in 1943. That did not make Goebbels a Nobel Laureate, of course, and it seems he did not publicly crow about “his” medal. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2026, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/239 "2026-01-19T09:50:23Z")
This, again, is what I don’t understand about a narcissist - how he doesn’t grasp that this is embarrassing to him. I mean, I know a few narcissists, but not a single one of them would have blatantly demanded a Nobel prize the way Trump did if they were in his shoes. They’d have used all kinds of sly devious indirect means to passive-aggressive their way into getting it. ---
**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 19, 2026, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/240 "2026-01-19T09:55:43Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > what I don’t understand about a narcissist - how he doesn’t grasp that this is embarrassing to him. Because Trump is a very, very **stupid** narcissist. His complete lack of self-awareness is just stunning and downright comical. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2026, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/241 "2026-01-19T13:48:02Z")
The internet is alive and well with one meme after another making fun of trump being given different medals. He gets the Gold Flour Medal from the puffy marshmallow and bowling trophies and so many more. One of my personal favorites is trump receiving the grammy from milli vanilli. But I have to say, this is all quickly becoming not funny anymore. Bad things are happening in Minnesota. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845.md?page=13)