Nobel Foundation voids Trump's gifted Nobel Peace Prize: "The decision is final"

[riversedge]

Source: msn


Story by Rey Harris • 7h

In a press release issued Friday, the foundation explained that no matter what happens to the medal, "it is and remains the original laureate who is recorded in history as the recipient of the prize."

"Even if the medal or diploma later comes into someone else's possession, this does not alter who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize," the statement said, later adding, "The decision is final and applies for all time."


The statement came after Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado – the most recently selected laureate – "presented" her medal to Trump during a White House visit on Thursday.

Machado explained it was "a recognition for his unique commitment with our freedom," while Trump posted on social media, "Maria presented me with her Nobel Peace Prize for the work I have done.".......................







Nobel Foundation voids Trump's gifted Nobel Peace Prize: "The decision is final"
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For once be a man Mr Trump and return the peace Prize to its rightful owner.




The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize
Statement from the Nobel Foundation

One of the core missions of the Nobel Foundation is to safeguard the dignity of the Nobel Prizes and their administration. The Foundation upholds Alfred Nobel’s will and its stipulations. It states that the 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.

For additional information, please refer to the Norwegian Nobel Committee: https://nobelpeaceprize.org/press/press-releases/the-nobel-prize-and-the-laureate-are-inseparable

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[riversedge]

1. 🇳🇴 Norwegian prime minister says Trump repeatedly begs for the Nobel Peace Prize

I think Trump grasps the idea fine but his Ego can not accept it!!

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🇳🇴 Norwegian prime minister says Trump repeatedly begs for the Nobel Peace Prize

Norwegian prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre says that Donald Trump raises the same issue every time they meet. According to Støre, Donald Trump repeatedly complains, pleads, and demands to know why he has not been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Støre explains that he gives the same answer every time. The decision is made entirely by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which operates independently and without any involvement from the Norwegian government.

It is, as Støre reportedly notes with thinly veiled frustration, a concept Trump appears fundamentally unable to grasp.

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[underpants]

4. It's a prestigious award

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220945913

[PatSeg]

28. If he really wanted a Nobel Prize that much,

maybe he should have tried EARNING one instead of begging and whining like a 9 year old brat.

[stage left]

31. I don't know

He could try not waging war on his own people for a start.

[The Roux Comes First]

2. The Neediness is Truly Pathetic

If he can't steal something, extort it, or intimidate someone into yielding it to him he is simply incapable of imagining any other way of achieving his goal.

Yet almost every school-age child requires only a few weeks to learn how their actual performance and behavior can influence their achievements, for better or worse.

[Timewas]

3. No doubt

He is the sickest most idiotic person in this world and probably an any other also..

[Dave Bowman]

5. There should be a Nobel prize for immaturity, he would win bigly.

[GusBob]

48. The no recall rule is kinda dumb

Rescind the darn thing

Let’s say some Trojan horse gets it by stealth or fraud then turns out to be a child molester

[J_William_Ryan]

6. Clearly the Nobel Foundation made a mistake awarding

Machado the prize – she’s as undeserving as Trump.

[riversedge]

9. I admit I know little about Machado, but for the Nobel committee to

award her the peace prize, she must have have the good character at the time.

Ps--I think the committee is super ticked off--this is the second time they have put out an announcement about the Award in just a few short weeks.

[Wednesdays]

10. I was about to say...

I'll bet that's the last time the committee awards the prize to anyone with even a hint of affinity to TSF.

[reACTIONary]

40. She may be making what might be called....

... a "sacrifice" for her country. She is sucking up to him, but I think she thinks it will he for the betterment of Venezuela.

Maybe the Nobel committee should give her another one!

[GopherGal]

56. I'm blessedly ignorant of tactics for dealing with a malignant narcissist

but I think people forget that the "fight or flight" reflex is actually "fight, flight, freeze or fawn". Machado (like WAY too many others) has essentially chosen "fawn" in an attempt to appease the Narcissist with Nukes.

The Diapered Despot is too stupid to realize that possession of the prize medal does NOT make one the winner of the prize. It only makes him the ahole who bullied the Prize winner into giving him her symbolic trinket.

[Blue Owl]

7. Poor widdle poopy baby pedophile protector

[Maru Kitteh]

8. I have a few scalpels.

This does not make me a neurosurgeon.

[chouchou]

11. I swear, my husband would never, ever lower himself, crawl like a maggot, in order...

...to whine, beg, pretty-pretty please for any award which he does not deserve.
Trump has got the integrity and kindness of a low IQ mosquito.

[niyad]

12. Now why are you insulting those poor mosquitos?

[chouchou]

24. I understand but, here in Floriduh, I've been bitten so many times, I tend to be unfair.

I'll try to do better.

[3catwoman3]

39. When our older son, now 35, was 8, he wanted to invent a time machine...

...so he could go back and kill the first 2 mosquitos that ever existed before they had a chance to mate and make more.

[chouchou]

41. Your son, apparently, has a cool mind. Mosquitoes follow carbon-dioxide.

If you can hold your breathe you're safe. Of course, after one-two minutes..they have you..

[niyad]

55. I understand about the bites, and you have my sympthies. One of the

advantages of living in an alpine desert is the rarity of mosquitoes.

[Skittles]

13. it's MAGAt

REAL maggots serve an actual critical purpose on this earth

[chouchou]

23. That is quite true. But frankly, even if were not married, I'd not date one.

[Collimator]

14. Trump does have a gift.

He has somehow sustained a grandiose sense of self while having no self-respect whatsoever.

[Grokenstein]

15. Parody Found on Reddit:

Congratulations, Mr. President! You've Won Everything!

[paleotn]

16. You can occasionally find Super Bowl rings for sale if you know where to look.

Doesn't mean you won the Super Bowl.

[localroger]

17. There is, in fact, nothing to void

The award was made. The medal is a trinket. It's not too hard, if you have the money, to find a NFL Superbowl ring for sale, but acquiring you doesn't make you a Superbowl player.

Trump probably thinks the Norwegian government can exert pressure and threaten and finagle the Nobel committee into legit naming him, since after all it's what he would do and it's always worked for him.

[Wiz Imp]

18. They need to "officially" rescind the award from Machado, and declare 2025's winner as VOID

[onenote]

44. They just announced that the decision to grant the award is final. So they can't do that.

Never have.

[Wiz Imp]

47. I know they've said that. The point is they CAN and SHOULD change their mind.

[onenote]

49. They disagree.

The statement by the Nobel Committee could not have been clearer:
"A laureate cannot share the prize with others, nor transfer it once it has been announced. A Nobel Peace Prize can also never be revoked. The decision is final and applies for all time."

[Wiz Imp]

50. WTF? Am I not allowed to express my opinion?

Are you a member of the Nobel committee? Is that why you are so upset about my expressing a different opinion? Sheesh. How arrogant of you.

[onenote]

51. I'm sorry? Where did I say you couldn't express your opinion? And what gives you the right to deny me the right

to disagree with you?

I'd suggest you chill out, but I suspect that will only make you more upset.

[Wiz Imp]

54. 🙄💤🗯🕳

[Ilikepurple]

57. I don't think any rights were denied here, so I'm not sure who needs to chill.

I’m not even sure you engaged Wiz Imp’s statements other than say the Nobel Foundation cannot rescind an award because it has previously decided it is prohibited by the rules established by its self. There are all kinds of arguments as to why they might not want to do that, but restating their position is not one of them.

[Fiendish Thingy]

19. Inaccurate headline - there was no "voiding" of the award

The Nobel committee said earlier this week no award could be either transferred or revoked, this report just confirms that, regardless of who possesses the actual medal, the award is Machado’s.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

20. No, it hasn't.

The source for this claim is a German site, TAG24 News. "Void" seems to be an unfortunate translation for what actually happened, which is that the Nobel Prize committee is not recognizing an attempt to transfer the award to a non-recipient.

The prize has not been "voided." It is still in effect. The recipient is, as it always was, Maria Corina Machado. She cannot transfer the award to someone else.

The award might, physically, be in the possession of someone other than a recipient, but that person does not become the revipient.

To say that the award has been voided, though, is not correct. MSN sweeps this stuff up and doesn't do any fact-checking.

The award still stands.

[FakeNoose]

21. I hope they removed Machado's name from the Peace Prize

She has demonstrated that she doesn't deserve it, nor does anyone else that she might give it to.

[onenote]

45. The article and the statement from the committee is clear: the award is final. It can't be revoked.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

52. "Gentlemen, you can't post facts in here! This is Latest Breaking News!" NT

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[calimary]

22. Good grief, what a BABY he is. A big ridiculously spoiled BABY.

With my sincere apologies to real babies everywhere.

[tonekat]

25. It's like she pawned the Prize. N/T

[SunSeeker]

26. The medal is not his, regardless. Anything presented to the president in his official capacity belongs to the US.

The American people now own that medal.

The next president should return it to Machado, who will probably be sitting in a Venezuelan prison, incarcerated by the Maduro regime goons Trump left in place because they are letting him steal Venezuelan oil. Trump does not give a shit about her, nor Venezuela.

[greatauntoftriplets]

27. Everything Trump touches dies.

Cheers to Norway!

[BowDown]

32. Just a little tidbit.

Valdy Daddy (Putin) stole a Super Bowl Ring from Robert Kraft when he asked Kraft to let him see it. At least Putin took it like the thug he is. This motherfucker has to whine and beg for it. How Pathetic 🤬🤬

[travelingthrulife]

29. Now Dementia Donnie will have to invade Norway.

[Joinfortmill]

30. He is such a sick fuck

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[Buddyzbuddy]

33. Everything he touches turns to sh*t!

[CTyankee]

34. dear god, this man is pathetic...I've never seen such a vile creature...

[MerrilyMerrily]

35. Did she keep the money part of the prize?

Or did he demand that too?

[bamagal62]

36. The bad seed.

[Cha]

37. Awesome... The Nobel Peace Prize Committee

Isn't into to Orwellian Gaslighting Shit with its Prize

And, PEDO Rapist Mass Homicidal Nazi is NOT Going to Change.

[choie]

42. Trump to deploy troops

to Norway. Film at 11.

[Sneederbunk]

43. And no parting gifts for TSF.

[BigmanPigman]

46. His staff should provide those tiny star stickers like in school.

I still have sheets of them from my teaching days as a 1st grade teacher. They should just stick one on his forehead for being a stable genius every time he needs an ego-boost.

[Doodley]

53. Trump is so angry at not winning a peace prize. No wonder he wants to start wars.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

58. MaddowBlog-Trump received a Nobel Peace Prize the same way he received a Purple Heart

The president seems to prefer a model where others do the heavily lifting and then generously turn over their honors.

Trump received a Nobel Peace Prize the same way he received a Purple Heart:

He wants the honors without the sacrifice. He prefers a model in which others do the work and then generously turn over their awards to him, because, as he put it, it’s “much easier.” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-01-16T16:59:30.116Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-received-a-nobel-peace-prize-the-same-way-he-received-a-purple-heart

That reminded me of a story from almost a decade ago. Politico published this report in August 2016:

Without setting foot on a battlefield, Donald Trump said he received a Purple Heart medal on Tuesday at his rally in Ashburn, Virginia, from a retired lieutenant colonel and supporter.

‘I said to him, “Is that like the real one, or is that a copy?”’ the Republican nominee said moments after taking the stage at a local high school. Trump recounted the exchange, remarking that the man, who he identified as retired Lt. Col. Louis Dorfman said, ‘That’s my real Purple Heart. I have such confidence in you.’

“I always wanted to get the Purple Heart,” the then-candidate declared. “This was much easier.”

Purple Hearts are awarded to service members or their families after they’re wounded or killed in the course of their military service. Due to alleged “bone spurs” in his feet, Trump avoided military service, but by his own admission, he “always wanted to get the Purple Heart” anyway.

Having someone who actually served in the military hand him the honor was “much easier” for Trump than actually wearing the uniform and putting his life on the line.

With Machado, the story is similar: Trump wants the accolades without the sacrifice. He apparently prefers a model in which others do the heavily lifting and then generously turn over their honors to him, without him having to do anything to merit the award he covets.

But while the president will likely celebrate the Nobel Peace Prize that ended up in his possession, he’ll know — we all know — that there’s a dramatic difference between a gift and earned honors.

[SWBTATTReg]

59. I was thinking that the Nobel people would do something like this, void the original Nobel prize that was given to

tRUMP. The original recipient should have never given this prize to tRUMP. She's tainted the purpose of the award by giving to someone who never deserved it.

[JustKay]

60. Bravo!

Thanks so much!