Norwegian lawmakers rip Trump accepting Machado Nobel prize: 'Embarrassing and damaging'

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6. There is no such thing as "giving away your prize"

The prize is recognition by the Nobel committee. Their published record still shows Machado as recipient of the prize. As for the medal that's a memorial trinket, and people have been giving away and selling their medals since Napoleon started giving them out instead of paying his soldiers in looting privileges. I believe Orange Juicifer already has several purple hearts and maybe other medals given to him by MAGA US servicemen, but there is no official record of this and the original recipients remain the recipients of record. You can in some cases refuse a prize -- it depends on the rules established by the prize giving organization -- but in that case you almost always have to do so before it's awarded, so that the prize can go to someone else or get an appropriate asterisk next to it in the record.