2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner and Venezuelan Opposition Leader Maria Corina Machado has announced she “presented”her award to U.S. President Donald Trump at a meeting in Washington D.C. on Thursday (local time).
The U.S. recently launched airstrikes on Venezuela and captured its president, Nicolás Maduro.
The announcement comes days after the Nobel Foundation released a statement clarifying that a Nobel Prize “cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others.”
Machado
Maria Machado is Venezuela’s Opposition Leader. She went into hiding in August 2024, citing concerns for her safety.
The Nobel Institute gave Machado the award for her promotion of democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.
Last month, she was seen in public for the first time in months, met by a crowd of supporters in Oslo after the 2025 Nobel Prize Ceremony.
Machado said: "I presented the president of the United States the medal, the Nobel Peace Prize."
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"I told him... 200 years ago, General Lafayette gave Simon Bolivar a medal with George Washington's face on it... as a sign of the Brotherhood in their fight for freedom against tyranny."
"200 years in history, the people of Bolivar are giving back... a medal, in this case a medal of the Nobel Peace Prize, and a recognition for his unique commitment with our freedom," Machado added.
She did not confirm if Trump accepted the award.
Nobel rules
On 9 January, the Nobel Foundation released a statement saying that once a prize is announced, “the decision is final and stands for all time.”
The organisation referred to a longer post, which says its decisions cannot be appealed, and the committee “will not comment” on what recipients “may say and do after they have been awarded”.
While Nobel prizes can be given to multiple people at once, after theyhave been awarded, they “can neither be revoked, shared, nor transferred to others,” the post added.
