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Miles Archer

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Fri Jan 16, 2026, 09:30 PM Friday

You KNEW the Nobel Committee was going to issue a statement after Trump got his bling...didn't you? [View all]

Trump lost out on the coveted honor to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who on Thursday presented him with the medal “as a personal symbol of gratitude” on behalf of Venezuelans and in recognition of Trump’s “principled and decisive action to secure a free Venezuela.”

Trump, 79, grinned as he clutched his latest golden item.

But the president’s mere possession of the medal—and apparently not the diploma, which doesn’t seem to interest him—is nothing more than an ego-booster, according to the committee that selects the winner.

“The medal and the diploma are the physical symbols confirming that an individual or organisation has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize,” the committee said in a statement on Friday. “The prize itself – the honour and recognition – remains inseparably linked to the person or organisation designated as the laureate by the Norwegian Nobel Committee."

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-handed-fresh-humiliation-after-stealing-nobel-prize/

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