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Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado told reporters she presented the medal for her Nobel Peace Prize to President Donald Trump at a private White House meeting on Thursday, but did not say if he accepted it.

"I think today is a historic day for us Venezuelans," she said after the meeting with Trump, the first time the two have met in-person.

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[–] clot27@lemmy.zip 33 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

this is so embarrassing for everyone involved, yikes.

[–] Eril@feddit.org 8 points 3 hours ago

Even for the Nobel Price Committee to some degree. I will be interested in what their reaction will be.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 hours ago

fuck I swear this is pathetic enough to cause an integer overflow or something

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 44 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Before: bribes done in secret, big scandal if journalists found out

Now: bribes are given in front of hundreds of journalists and photographers and the receiver is smiling like a toddler getting a box of Lego Duplo

[–] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

Dumbest bribe ever

[–] IronpigsWizard@lemmy.world 65 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

SAD

I gotta say, solid contender for most pathetic image of 2026.

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It’s beyond parody, it’s apocalyptically stupid, it can’t be ridiculed because it’s self-ridiculing in a way that’s never been done before. Merely looking at this image makes you dumber. It’s a vortex, a black hole of stupidity and hubris.

[–] IronpigsWizard@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Your words are like poetry.

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 13 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

And it's just mid January...

[–] IronpigsWizard@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, it feels very disorienting honestly, like we just lived through a year in 2 weeks, heh.

[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 hours ago

By 2027 I'll be a decade older. Or dead. Probably dead.

[–] rarsamx@lemmy.ca 16 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The committee should re-award it given that the recipient doesn't value it.

[–] elbucho@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Given that the Nobel Prize is basically the moral equivalent of a cracker jack prize at this point, and given that it's guaranteed to make the Toddler in Chief choke on a McDonald's cheeseburger, they should give it to Obama. I mean, what the fuck - after giving Kissinger one, it's not like the committee assigning them can be said to stand for anything approaching morality. Might as well do it for the memes.

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

They should just give the next one to Kissinger, posthumously. Just drive the point home.

[–] elbucho@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Wouldn't induce as much apoplexy in the diaper wearing fuck. But would still be funny.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 19 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I bought a superbowl ring, that means I am now a superbowl champion.

That is the logical flow of this, yes.

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 34 points 10 hours ago

So pathetic for the both of them

[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 hours ago

This is just naked manipulation. I would be ashamed if someone tried it on me, but what do you know, Trump completely laps it up. She's a sly and calculating operator, I will give her that.

We truly do live in a clown world.

[–] IronpigsWizard@lemmy.world 9 points 8 hours ago

Trump Steak Bag

"Thank you for your Nobel Prize, here is a bag of Trump steaks from 1999"

[–] super_user_do@feddit.it 12 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

They are all losing their masks. The weakness and demagogy of Maduro's leadership, american entrism in the opposition, the failure of international institutions etc . We are all fucked, the values we've grown up with and that we studied in school were LIES

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

"Fascism arises from the collapse of legitimacy of liberal institutions"

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 points 8 hours ago

Did you not always think it was all a sham though?

[–] Burghler@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 hours ago

Damn, I got fooled thinking she was cool. Nobel peace prize really means dick all now huh

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 28 points 12 hours ago

FIFA peace prize in shambles…

[–] MonsterMonster@lemmy.world 184 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

It's like bribing and appeasing a toddler at the same time.

[–] sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 15 hours ago

More like bribing someone who is known as a child rapist.

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 64 points 15 hours ago

That’s like buying your boss a “best boss” mug to try to get a raise. It means nothing and your boss is an idiot.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 13 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

The Nobel committee is a joke

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 100 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (7 children)

What a dumb bitch. I think after this the Nobel committee should retrospectively take it away from her, so that orange fuck can't claim that he got it.

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 80 points 16 hours ago (8 children)

She got the Nobel Peace prize. Do you know who else got the Peace prize?

Henry Kissinger.

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

So Trump just needs to bomb more civilians without congressional approval. Easy

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[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

What does président Stephen Miller think about that. Trump isn't the president

[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 62 points 17 hours ago

Quit enabling the pedophile god dammit. Now you're a pedophile by association, Maria, you fucking idiot.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 49 points 17 hours ago

Fascist sycophant.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 49 points 17 hours ago

Boot licker.

[–] PedroMaldonado@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago
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