Let’s talk about Donald Trump’s *gifted* Nobel Peace Prize.
In case you haven’t been following, Trump has been openly campaigning for a Nobel Peace Prize for a while now, but it ended up going to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado instead. As you know, Trump led the mission that captured Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro. Most people expected Trump to nominate Machado as the successor to run the country, but he had other plans and backed Maduro’s former VP, Delcy Rodríguez, instead.
Machado went to the White House on Thursday and did something fairly unconventional. She gave him her medal:
The internet kind of lost it over this weird gesture: “I just can’t understand how Trump feels no embarrassment over accepting someone else’s prize.”
Sooo, there’s a problem with this whole thing. Right before Trump was gifted the medal the Nobel Peace Center tweeted out a statement saying that, “A medal can change owners, but the title of Nobel Peace Prize laureate cannot.”
They wrote: “As the Norwegian Nobel Committee states: ‘Once a Nobel Prize is announced, it cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others. The decision is final and stands for all time.'”
Yeahhhh, they definitely knew what they were doing with that post.
As this person said, that’s “quite a subtweet here.”