US President Donald Trump said on Friday that the winner of the Nobel Prize Maria Corina Machado “personally called him and said that she had received the prize in his honor” after the White House said earlier on the day that the Nobel Committee had chosen “policy over peace”.
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The White House criticized the Nobel Committees’ decisions to award the Peace of the Venezuelan opposition leader instead of Trump, who at the price aggressively lobbied at the price and offered his role in mediating international trade in the ceasefire, Reuters reported.
“President Trump will continue to conclude peace agreements, end wars and save lives. He has a humanitarian heart, and no one like him who can move the mountains with mere power of his will,” said White House spokesman Steven Cheung in post X.
“The Nobel Committee has shown to place policy over peace.”
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Asked about Nobel, Trump directly criticized the decision of the Committee on Friday evening, but he scored for a few wars and said that Machado could award him if he asked.
“The person who actually won the Nobel Prize today called, called me and said,” I accept it in honor of you because you really deserve it, “Trump told reporters in an oval office.
“It’s a very nice thing. I didn’t say,” then give me, “although I think she could have. She was very nice.”
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The Norwegian Nobel Commission awarded Machado a Peace Prize and admired it as a “courageous defender of Freedom, who rises and resists” against authoritarian regimes.
This comes despite Trump’s voice campaign for honor.
Trump, who had previously offered his role in negotiating an agreement on a ceasefire and hostage aimed at ending the war in Gaza, claimed that he had ended eight wars since entering the office and stood up as a worthy of the price of the price. Yet Trump also expressed skepticism about the award and indicated that it could be overlooked.
“Will you get the Nobel Prize? Absolutely not. They give it to some guys who haven’t done a damn thing,” Trump told the best American military leaders last month.
He said it would be a “great insult” for the United States if he didn’t get it.
Nominations for nobel must be made before 31 January to be valid for this year’s price. Trump returned to the White House for the second term in office 20 January.
On Friday, Trump acknowledged the decision of the committee in practice focused on 2024 when he led the campaign for the President, but suggested that his contributions to peace were so great that they were worth giving him.
“I ran to the office in” 24. But there are those who say we did so much that they should do it. “
(With Reuters inputs)
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