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.
As a Venezuelan I can say, what a shameful exhibition
Quit enabling the pedophile god dammit. Now you’re a pedophile by association, Maria, you fucking idiot.
It’s like bribing and appeasing a toddler at the same time.
More like bribing someone who is known as a child rapist.
I mean, what does a trophy matter in the long run if it means her country and people might be left alone by a madman? She still was the one who was awarded the Nobel and Trump can’t take that away from her.
She’s not doing it in the interest of Venezuela. She’s doing it so that he’ll make her the puppet leader of Venezuela. She’s not Gandhi; she’s Vidkun Quisling.
To be clear, she was praising Trump long before the events of this month. She never wanted the country or her people to be left alone, she wanted all this to happen so she could suck up to him and be installed. Did she have a hand in actually making it (the war and the Maduro kidnapping) happen? Probably not, but she was dealt the exact hand she wanted so now she can enjoy it.
You know what they say. It’s easy as bribing a toddler.
Fascist sycophant.
Boot licker.
If it makes him shut up on one issue, fine. Pacifier for the big baby.
Does not change the fact that the Nobel Prize is not transferrable.
Doesn’t matter, because Trump doesn’t know. Even if he did it wouldn’t keep him from claiming it was “his” Nobel Prize. “It was given to me, so it’s mine., see? All mine.”
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.
She’s giving up a piece of metal in the hopes that it’ll help her country. The country that she’s the rightful president of.
This is Juan Guaido erasure!
She got the Nobel Peace prize. Do you know who else got the Peace prize?
Henry Kissinger.
So did Obama, right before he ordered a bunch of strikes.
If you think Obama is comparable to Kissinger then you might be a Trump voter.
Hey, there’s multiple options. They could be a “stay at home and not bother” voter instead. They are the largest electoral demographic in the US after all.
Well, Trump voters and a whole bunch of dems thought kamala was comparable to trump.
Don’t be campist. Kissinger was obviously worlds worse, but Obama killed an insane amount of civilians with drones and claimed that because they were military aged males they were actually combatants. He double tapped to kill first responders and assassinated a US citizen with a drone strike and no due process. Just because the Republicans are far more evil doesn’t make Obama’s rampant war crimes any less awful.
Yes…”before” is a pretty important qualifier.
The Obama prize can be viewed as an aspirational prize: rewarding rhetoric that was a drastic change from the typical US hawkish rhetoric and policy that had been increasing since Reagan. They ultimately got it wrong…very very wrong…but at least it was based on something.
Kissinger, on the other hand, was tantamount to a war criminal and everybody knew it.
Giving it to Machado just tells us that the prize is fully corrupted, considering her violent rhetoric. Not just that - but the notion that she was promoting democracy is laughable, given her statements about installing a regime that would be resistant or immune to leftist political victories.
If I recall correctly, it was awarded before he actually did anything. It felt like wishful thinking, and then he proceeded to authorize strikes somewhere.
Yeah…it was based mostly on rhetoric but also early policy…which isn’t nothing. Close to…but still. He did things like sign an executive order to close Guantanamo and laid out a plan to stop the Iraq war. We know what actually happened…but we also know that it wasn’t solely his decision to reneg.
It made sense because of how hawkish everything had been up until then. There wasn’t a sense that he’d essentially become a lame duck in the first midterms…and that he’d do so much for the hawks and get nothing in return.
I didn’t have any problems with what Obama did at that time. I just thought it was premature to give him the award. It made it seem meaningless.
So Trump just needs to bomb more civilians without congressional approval. Easy
I wish they would, but they have publicly stated that it can’t be transferred, shared, or revoked.
Given Trump’s relation with reality and mental age, the formalism are irrelevant: in his mind if he has the shinny thing then the prize is his.
It just can be physically handed to Trump to keep forever 😉
Did South Park do this as a bit already?
I don’t think so. It was the FIFA and Apple One that they did.
So foolish, she knows not who she deals with. I guess I cannot fault her for trying though but appeasement of a megalomaniac rarely works out.
There isn’t exactly a huge market of people to trade Nobel Prizes to in exchange for political favors, so it’s not like a better option is likely to come along.
I don’t have enough vomit for this, can I borrow someone else’s
I’m clearly missing some huge portions of this [complicated] picture.
wtaf. 😐
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.
More like giving your boss your own “best boss” mug.
did not say if he accepted it
I mean, did she really need to?
I’m not going to suggest that they’d be better off with Maduro, but surely they could come up with someone better than Trump’s asshole licker.
The comments here appear to confirm the Nobel committee awarded the right person: anything a Lemmy circlejerk hates is almost certainly right & good as further evinced by telltale signs such as histrionic meltdowns.
Pretty much. Sometimes I’m still surprised how deranged people here can be.
Man, you’re like a pizza cutter. All edge and no point.
Machado, before she won the prize, called for the violent overthrow of the Chavinistas on multiple occasions & promised to hand some of the governance of her country over to corporations. Additionally, she promised to install a regime that would be resistant or immune to leftist wins in elections undercutting the very reason she was given the prize.
Whatever axe you have to grind with the forum you’re using is irrelevant if you can’t articulate an argument.
She very very clearly was angling to be Pinochet 2.0
Absolutely. If she was installed as leader I would predict a brutal civil war without heavy ongoing “security” from the US.
And the comments say none of that as you provide no references to substantiate anything you wrote. “Irrelevant”, “inarticulate” comments, which they all were, need nothing to articulate against them. All I see here is mindless, unsubstantiated rage, so 🤷.
This is a comments section…not a bibliography. I’m stating public facts…very easy to check.
You haven’t said anything that makes me believe you’re interested in making an argument or would make it worth my time to spoonfeed you. I’m not making obscure statements.
Cringe
