# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/142 "2026-01-15T22:56:58Z")
It’d be rich if the Nobel Committee swooped in and took it back, saying the medal is merely a token representative of the award, and it may not be given away. ---
**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 15, 2026, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/143 "2026-01-15T22:57:22Z")
It’s embarrassing as an American that she felt the need to give it to him. ---
**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 15, 2026, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/144 "2026-01-15T22:58:03Z")
I understand that reference. I was a WWF fan at that time, and remember seeing that. I think it was a special Friday Night Main Event. As far as the award goes, the Nobel committee doesn’t recognize the transfer, [saying that](https://www.nobelpeaceprize.org/press/press-releases/a-nobel-prize-cannot-be-revoked-shared-or-transferred) “Once a Nobel Prize is announced, it cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others. The decision is final and stands for all time.” ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/145 "2026-01-15T23:00:24Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > It’s embarrassing as an American that she felt the need to give it to him. It’s mind numbingly childish and excruciatingly unbelievable. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/146 "2026-01-15T23:00:36Z")
Why did she do it? What will it get her? Trump will crap on her sure as shit. I feel bad she felt the need to even visit him much less give him a gift(?). So sad. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/147 "2026-01-15T23:02:42Z")
It’s now the Ignoble Peace Prize. It was awarded to her, she can do whatever with it - sell it, give it away, trash it. It was still and will always be _awarded_ to her, even if the physical medal is with someone else. I feel this is a political move and that all she wants is a new future for Venezuela, and knows Trump is easy to flatter, and that he has the power to do something there, and that is more important to her than the medal. It remains to be seen if that new future will be positive or something else. ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/148 "2026-01-15T23:20:10Z")
Did she give him the money that came with the prize? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/149 "2026-01-15T23:26:47Z")
What you bet he asked for it? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/150 "2026-01-15T23:35:44Z")
As for why she did this, I’m going with… She has suddenly found herself to be the president of her country because Trump’s military kidnapped the previous president from his home in Venezuela and Trump keeps threatening further military violence upon the country and she’s trying to placate him. Which happens to be just what that sick fuck wanted. ---
**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, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/151 "2026-01-16T00:05:38Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > She has suddenly found herself to be the president of her country because Trump’s military kidnapped the previous president from his home in Venezuela and Trump keeps threatening further military violence upon the country and she’s trying to placate him. No she’s not, that’s [Delcy Rodríguez](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delcy_Rodr%C3%ADguez). The opposition leader doesn’t take over when the president can no longer serve, rather the VP does. If Trump were incapacitated, for example, Vance would be POTUS in the US, not Kamala Harris. (I mean, I wish. But no.) ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2026, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/152 "2026-01-16T00:05:56Z")
I’d be willing to bet that he asked her for the cash that went with it. Between the FIFA Peace Prize and extorting someone else’s Nobel, it’s worth about as much as a participation ribbon at a middle school track and field meet. ---
**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, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/153 "2026-01-16T00:25:46Z")
This level of sucking-up is just sickening. Of course the medal by itself is meaningless, but the simple-minded toddler-in-chief doesn’t know that. It’s gold, it’s shiny, and it says “Nobel” on it. Good enough for the man-child. I bet he’ll be proudly showing it around, unaware as usual that he’s making an ass of himself and everyone is snickering behind his back. > [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > I understand there are Olympic medalists who’ve sold their medals because they needed money. That doesn’t mean the buyers become the world’s best athletes. Nor that, unlike Trump with his toddler-like mind, they would ever try to pretend that they were. There was a story recently about a former Montreal Canadiens hockey player who auctioned off his Stanley Cup ring. It fetched a princely $85,000, but I’m sure the buyer doesn’t consider himself a star hockey player, but merely the possessor of an interesting collectible. Trump has the arguable “benefit” of being so ineffably stupid that he lives in an imaginary world where symbolism is the actual reality, just like all his lies are actual truths. ---
**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 16, 2026, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/154 "2026-01-16T01:15:55Z")
Utter embarrassment. Even a first grader knows the difference between winning a medal and merely being given it by someone else who did win. And I don’t understand how a narcissist can care so little about people snickering and mocking. I thought narcissists would be MORE sensitive to such sneering, not less. ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2026, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/155 "2026-01-16T01:20:34Z")
I’m actually surprised that she didn’t just give him a reproduction. Even if it was 80% accurate it would probably do the job. ---
**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 16, 2026, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/156 "2026-01-16T01:22:23Z")
> **[Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/adambonin.bsky.social/post/3mcillng7gs2k)** > > Per WWF Commissioner Jack Tunney, it is now deemed vacated and will be contested in a 16-person\*\* single-elimination bracketed tournament this April at WrestleMania in Las Vegas. > > \*\* Yes, sticklers, I know WM IV had two seeded wrestlers and it was a... ---
**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, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/157 "2026-01-16T01:22:50Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > And I don’t understand how a narcissist can care so little about people snickering and mocking. I thought narcissists would be MORE sensitive to such sneering, not less. He’s extremely sensitive to it, that’s why he has someone whose entire existence is to reassure him 24 hours a day. > **[Trump’s ‘Human Printer’ Is Somehow Weirder Than You Thought](https://www.thecut.com/article/natalie-harp-trump-aide-excerpts.html)** > > Apparently she spent last summer living in a golf-club locker room to be close to him. I don’t think at this point he could function without someone doing that. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2026, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/158 "2026-01-16T01:27:55Z")
Uh-oh, he figured it out. [![](https://i.imgur.com/PqVm711.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/PqVm711.jpeg) ---
**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, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/159 "2026-01-16T01:36:46Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > > [@Velocity](#): > > > > And I don’t understand how a narcissist can care so little about people snickering and mocking. I thought narcissists would be MORE sensitive to such sneering, not less. > > He’s extremely sensitive to it, that’s why he has someone whose entire existence is to reassure him 24 hours a day. Yes, and that’s why he so viciously attacks critics like Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert. But the other aspect of it is that Trump is not just a narcissist, but **an incredibly stupid** narcissist who has no concept of how widely he’s mocked and ridiculed. Virtually every one of his illiterate posts on Truth Social becomes the butt of jokes, but he thinks they’re the epitome of wisdom and the subject of awe and respect. When you’re a simpleton, life is simple. ---
**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 16, 2026, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/160 "2026-01-16T01:38:42Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > He’s extremely sensitive to it, that’s why he has someone whose entire existence is to reassure him 24 hours a day. Just one person? I think most of the Executive Branch is devoted to stroking his ego. ---
**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, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/161 "2026-01-16T01:42:16Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I think most of the Executive Branch is devoted to stroking his ego. I’m sure they do, but I don’t think they all follow him everywhere like ducklings. Just this one “aide” who kisses his emotional boo-boos. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845.md?page=9)