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Donald Trump has said it would be “an honor” take Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize if she offered it to him, as he prepares to meet the exiled politician next week.

Machado has been in hiding due to persistent threats on her life, emerging only briefly in Oslo after a three-day mission in which she was smuggled out of the country with the help of the U.S. military for the Nobel ceremony.

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[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 3 points 46 minutes ago (1 children)

The idea of transferring a Nobel prize makes no logical sense. It's like transferring an academy award. You can give away your trophy but you're still the one the academy officially gave an award to in recognition of your achievements. You can't give away the prestige. You can't give away the record that you were awarded the prize.

[–] EightBitBlood@lemmy.world 1 points 16 minutes ago

You're missing the punchline that it's the PEACE prize, and Trump wants to acquire it through force.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 27 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

He's the kind of person that participation trophies were created for.

[–] papertowels@mander.xyz 11 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 hour ago

That thing is an insult to participation trophies

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 19 points 5 hours ago

Remembering back to Trump 1.0, he visited a wounded soldier in the hospital, and admired his Purple Heart, and the MAGA-struck moron (maybe he was medicated) offered it to Trump, who actually took it, saying "I've always wanted one of these."

If you wanted one, go get yourself a traumatic brain injury in a war zone. It would probably improve his cognitive abilities.

[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Trump is so pathetic, why is MAGA attracted to him?

[–] cmhe@lemmy.world 1 points 11 minutes ago

Yes he is pathetic and he is a bully.

And too many people think bullies that just take what they want are 'strong'.

[–] sausager@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Believe it or not, they're more pathetic

[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 12 points 6 hours ago

The Nobel committee announce that the "Peace Prize" cannot be transferred or shared.

If it were gently misted with a polonium isotope first I'd be fine with this

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 16 points 9 hours ago

"Oil industry's chosen candidate happy to swap worthless bauble for entire country"

[–] Matombo@feddit.org 14 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (3 children)

tbh the world noble peace price is a joke since obama got it for anouncing stuff, not even following through.

and this shitshow is doubling down on it

a fake price for a fake man

it should have never been near 'murica so it doesn't even matter when trump gets one too

[–] jaxxed@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

I thought that Obama got it for the Iran peace deal, despite being the bomber in chief.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago

I agree with your sentiment, but its been a much more significant joke since way before then:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Nobel_Peace_Prize

(Henry Kissinger)

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 3 points 8 hours ago

I think it's weird how conservatives cried over Obama getting the Nobel for basically nothing, but now, Trump's fan club is getting him the Nobel a week after the military raid.

Not saying Obama deserved the prize, but at least it went through the committee. Trump, of course, is not big on the whole "going through the committee" thing.

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 6 points 9 hours ago

Well, good thing it doesn't matter who or what possesses the prizes. Otherwise, I guess some museum somewhere has Nobels too. (And the British Museum owns Egypt, on account of them having some pharaoh's jewels or something.)

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 14 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

To be clear, this opposition leader applauded the US's murder of Venezuelan boats and has been promising to privatize Venezuela's resources and public sector.

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 points 8 hours ago

Eh, Trump fucking with the US's own puppets is kinda funny. The enemies of the Venezuelan people are fighting.

[–] human@slrpnk.net 31 points 13 hours ago

I would be honored if Michael Phelps gave me all his gold medals from Beijing. Then I'd be the best swimmer of all time.

[–] scbasteve7@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Did he make a bet with someone that he could get a peace prize?

[–] human@slrpnk.net 19 points 13 hours ago

I think he just hates that Obama has one

[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah kinda. Obama got one and he feels immaculated by that.

Edit: emasculated not immaculated lol

I think the word you're looking for is emasculated.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 9 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I hope she assassinates him by poisoning the peace prize

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

She's pretty pro-trump, she probably will give it to him; it seems like an incredibly obvious bribe.

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Is she actually pro-Trump or does she just really need his good graces? (genuine question, I don't know much about Machado)

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 12 points 9 hours ago

She's pretty pro-trump, but to my eye the distinction between if she's courting trump because she just wants the influence he'll bring or if she genuinely believes in his insanity it seems like the same result to me - she's willing to treat with a murdering pedophile wannabe tyrant for power, that's pretty damning on it's own.

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