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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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[–] mar10sanch32@lemmy.world 1 points 7 minutes ago

"You can grab them by the peace prize... They let you do anything"

[–] clot27@lemmy.zip 39 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

this is so embarrassing for everyone involved, yikes.

[–] Eril@feddit.org 13 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

They already said that the price is given in the moment and cant be regifted or removed because later acts.

So in a way Trump is just as much nobel price winner as much as my cousing is Olympic ski jumping gold metalist. He bought the metal from auction, but it does not mean he earned it.

[–] Ougie@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Even the Nobel Prize committee? You mean the ones who ~~gave~~ sold it to her in the first place?

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 13 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 48 points 10 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 9 hours ago

Dumbest bribe ever

[–] IronpigsWizard@lemmy.world 70 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

SAD

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

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 19 points 7 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 4 points 5 hours ago

Your words are like poetry.

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

And it's just mid January...

[–] IronpigsWizard@lemmy.world 8 points 10 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 8 hours ago

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

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 35 points 12 hours ago

So pathetic for the both of them

[–] rarsamx@lemmy.ca 17 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] elbucho@lemmy.world 10 points 10 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 8 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] elbucho@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 19 points 11 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.

[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 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 10 points 11 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 14 points 12 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 5 points 8 hours ago

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

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[–] Burghler@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 30 points 15 hours ago

FIFA peace prize in shambles…

[–] MonsterMonster@lemmy.world 191 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

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

[–] sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 18 hours ago

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

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 66 points 18 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.

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 103 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 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 86 points 18 hours ago (8 children)

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

Henry Kissinger.

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 13 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

The Nobel committee is a joke

[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

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

[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 65 points 19 hours ago

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

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 51 points 19 hours ago

Boot licker.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 49 points 19 hours ago

Fascist sycophant.

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