• Trump says accepting Nobel from Machado would be “great honor”
• Norwegian Nobel Institute confirms prizes cannot be transferred to others
• President claims he “stopped eight wars” and deserves recognition

WASHINGTON, DC (TDR) — President Donald Trump said Thursday he would accept the Nobel Peace Prize from Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado if she offers it to him, calling it “a great honor,” as he confirmed plans to meet with her next week in Washington.

In an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, Trump said Machado is expected to visit “next week sometime” and that he looks forward to “saying hello to her” at the White House.

“I’ve heard that she wants to do that. That would be a great honor.”

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Machado won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize in October for “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela” and dedicated the award to Trump upon accepting it in Oslo last month. She told Hannity earlier this week she wants to “share” the prize with Trump to personally thank him for the U.S. military operation that captured former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Jan. 3.

No Mechanism to Transfer Prize

However, the Norwegian Nobel Institute clarified Friday that Nobel Prizes cannot be transferred or revoked once awarded.

“A Nobel Prize can neither be revoked nor transferred to others. Once the announcement of the laureate(s) has been made, the decision stands for all time.”

Erik Aasheim, spokesperson for the Norwegian Nobel Institute, added that while laureates are free to dispose of the prize money — worth approximately $1 million — as they see fit, the prize itself remains exclusively Machado’s.

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The statutes also specify no formal mechanism exists to reassign the laureate or transfer the award to another person after the announcement, according to the Nobel Foundation.

Trump’s Nobel Prize Aspirations

Trump used the interview to air longstanding frustrations about not receiving the Nobel Peace Prize himself.

“I’ve stopped eight wars. I think it’s been a major embarrassment to Norway. When you put out eight wars, in theory, you should get one for each war.”

The president claimed he stopped conflicts including those between India and Pakistan, Rwanda and Congo, and Israel and Hamas. Trump added he stopped “eight and a quarter” wars because “Thailand and Cambodia started going at it again.”

“It makes me feel so good. Not because of a Nobel Prize, but because I saved millions and millions of lives, and that’s what really makes me feel good.”

Fact-checkers have described Trump’s “eight wars” claim as highly misleading, noting that many of the cited conflicts remain unresolved or that Trump’s role in peace efforts has been overstated.

Reported Tensions Over Prize

The meeting comes amid reports that Trump was upset when Machado accepted the Nobel Prize in October rather than declining it in his favor.

Two sources close to the White House told The Washington Post that accepting the award was an “ultimate sin” against Trump.

“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today.”

Trump previously told NBC News that Machado “shouldn’t have won” the prize, though he claimed it had “nothing to do” with his decision not to install her as Venezuela’s leader following Maduro’s capture.

The president has instead supported an interim government led by Delcy Rodríguez, Maduro’s former vice president, while asserting the United States will “run the country” during Venezuela’s transition.

Behind-the-Scenes Lobbying Effort

Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy, wife of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, has reportedly worked both publicly and privately to arrange for Machado to offer the prize to Trump during their Oval Office meeting, according to journalist Rachael Bade’s Substack.

Campos-Duffy has described Machado as “pro-American” and emphasized she “will work with the president on economic issues, on the oil, and on rooting out the corruption.”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio called Machado “fantastic” on NBC’s Meet the Press, noting he has known her for “a very long time.” However, Rubio added the administration is “dealing with the immediate reality” of Venezuela’s transition.

Ersatz Recognition

After Trump failed to win the actual Nobel Peace Prize, allies created alternative recognition. FIFA President Gianni Infantino invented a “FIFA Peace Prize” that was presented to Trump at the Kennedy Center weeks after the Nobel Committee selected Machado.

Liberal political commentator Harry Sisson criticized the situation on X, writing it is “so beyond humiliating for the United States” that Trump appears to withhold support from Machado unless she gives him her Nobel Prize.

Machado told Hannity she last spoke with Trump on Oct. 10, the day the Nobel Prize was announced, and has not communicated with him since despite praising his Venezuela operation.

“I certainly would love to be able to personally tell him that we believe, the Venezuelan people, because this is a prize of the Venezuelan people, certainly want to give it to him and share it with him.”

As Trump prepares to meet with Machado next week, will symbolic gestures toward the Nobel Prize influence his position on who should lead Venezuela’s democratic transition?

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