On Thursday, Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado offered President Trump her peace prize, which she won in 2025.

The Nobel Foundation firmly rejected Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado's symbolic transfer of her Peace Prize to Trump, stating prizes cannot be passed on.

President Trump suggested the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s decision to award last year’s Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was a factor in his continued push to acquire Greenland in a letter to Norway’s leader over the weekend.

Machado won the award in 2025 for her role in peacefully opposing the regime of former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro.

The Nobel Foundation reaffirmed that a Peace Prize cannot be shared or transferred to someone else Sunday following reports Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado gifted her prize, awarded in 2025,

My very own someone else’s Nobel Prize,” he gloated, holding up a framed award with his name sloppily taped over the original. Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado handed her Nobel Peace Prize over to Trump on Thursday,

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado isn't the first Nobel Prize winner to give their medal away.

María Corina Machado’s charm offensive in the Trump White House, complete with a shiny Nobel medal in an elegant frame, is part of a recalibrated effort by the leader of Venezuela’s opposition to reclaim the narrative about the country’s transformation.