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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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[–] DeICEAmerica@lemmy.world 1 points 38 seconds ago

Low hanging griftard...

[–] libre_warrior@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 minutes ago

What an embarresment for the Nobel Institute.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago

I get that she probably realizes he's a simpleton and you can get a simpleton to do what you want if you give them gifts.

But still. Have some self respect.

[–] matthewm05@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 hour ago

She also loves Israel, go figure.

Not sure what this nobel peace prize is supposed to mean at this point.

[–] mar10sanch32@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] olenkoVD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

Literally this

[–] clot27@lemmy.zip 43 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

this is so embarrassing for everyone involved, yikes.

[–] Eril@feddit.org 15 points 9 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 12 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world -3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

.......she just gave and regifted it.

[–] MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

I tought my olympic medal anectode would be good enough. Or do you think that if Michael Phelps gave you you one of his medals it would make you a better swimmer?

[–] Ougie@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] IronpigsWizard@lemmy.world 64 points 15 hours ago (6 children)

SAD

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

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

It would be funny if she got a chocolate medal to gift him. Like this if you have not seen those medals with chocolate inside.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

Washington's up there like, "Told you fuckers political parties were a problem!"

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 21 points 10 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 5 points 9 hours ago

Your words are like poetry.

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 15 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

And it's just mid January...

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 points 16 minutes ago

It STILL hasn't been a year since that fetid piece of pig shit assumed office!

[–] IronpigsWizard@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 46 points 14 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

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[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 11 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 33 points 16 hours ago

So pathetic for the both of them

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 19 points 15 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.

[–] rarsamx@lemmy.ca 16 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] elbucho@lemmy.world 14 points 13 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 6 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] super_user_do@feddit.it 16 points 15 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 6 points 12 hours ago

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

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[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

She’s a sly and calculating operator

Glazing Trump is about as easy as it gets.

[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

Certainly true, but being willing to debase yourself like this can't be easy. Or maybe she's just trash and it's super easy for her, I don't know.

[–] MonsterMonster@lemmy.world 153 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

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

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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 28 points 18 hours ago

FIFA peace prize in shambles…

[–] IronpigsWizard@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago

Trump Steak Bag

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

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 56 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

More like giving your boss your own "best boss" mug.

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 85 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 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 67 points 22 hours ago (10 children)

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

Henry Kissinger.

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