*From Bloomberg News reporter Ott Ummelas and Heidi Taksdal Skjeseth:*
A sense of disbelief gripped Norwegian media and expert community following news that Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado gave her award medal to US President Donald Trump, who had been hankering after the accolade.
“That’s completely unheard of,” Janne Haaland Matlary, a professor with the University of Oslo and a former politician, told public broadcaster NRK. “It’s a total lack of respect for the award, on her part,” she said, calling the act “meaningless” and “pathetic.”
Trump, who has long coveted the peace prize and claims to deserve it for having resolved numerous wars during his second term, accepted the medal from the Venezuelan opposition leader at a White House meeting on Thursday. He has earlier expressed his dissatisfaction with the decision by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
Squeezy_Lemon on
I can’t even recall a movie that depicts events more comical than what is happening with the US administration right now.
Shot_Independence274 on
dude! i keep saying this!
Pay attention, Denmark and Greenland!
Want to permanently get the orange baboon off your case?
**name trumpty dumpty some silly made up title like “Supreme Protector and Peace bringer to Greenland” or “the one true king of the north, realm protector, lord of Greenland, great Viking warrior and peace bringer”…**
Then you give him one of those princess crowns from kids’ stores, and a diploma made in MS Word,
nimbutimbu on
If they had made a movie with this plot, it would have attracted protests as being demeaning to the US and it’s president.
ezagreb on
I can’t think of anyone who deserves the peace prize less than President Trump
L-V-N-A on
this dude seriously obsessed with meaningless pieces of paper for some reason
The_Frostweaver on
Sacha Baron Cohen needs to make The Dictator 2, a Bigger Dick
Own_Emergency53 on
*The whole world* is stunned…. And cringing
seguefarer on
Shouldn’t that read “Entire world cringes in secondhand embarrassment…”
a_norwegian_rat on
There was one other person that gave away his |Nobel| prize (editet “peace”. My bad). Knut Hamsun gave his away to Joseph Goebbels. So Trump is on that list now as well.
And it means nothing that she gave her prize away to Trump, it would be like if someone gave me one of their olympic medals. Does not mean i won one.
AlfaMenel on
We live in the real world South Park episode.
luckyknight216 on
Now Trump will start collecting people’s Nobel Peace Prizes like they’re Infinity Stones.
Dampmaskin on
As a Norwegian, this is my stunned face: -_-
That said, the Nobel peace price is BS and has been for decades.
adyrip1 on
This is an excellent proof of character about this lady. She is desperate to end up in his good graces, maybe, just maybe he will put her in charge of Venezuela. Makes you wonder if she actually deserved this prize in the first place.
WolfDoc on
We’re not so much stunned as trying to laugh and cringe at the same time.
EarthAndAlgorithms on
Peace prize should be a posthumous award.
yossanator on
May as well gift him a Happy Meal toy for all the significance this has. This is the Cosplay administration.
The_Magic_Potato on
Little boy needs his gold star sticker to feel special.
PracticalShoulder916 on
Most embarrassing president in the history of the US.
Kamay1770 on
Revoke the prize for her, it’s non transferable.
Disgusting behaviour by her, toddler behaviour by Trump to accept it.
ApeApplePine on
a grifter gifted to another grifter, anyone surprised?
HuckleberryHot4551 on
Even Simpson couldn’t predict this shit
MrLivefromthe215 on
Politically prying a Nobel prize out of someone’s hands is not equivalent to winning one. In fact, it disqualifies you from ever winning a legitimate one. Guess who did? Obama.
DaemonCRO on
She knows this is bullshit, she is doing it to appease man-child hoping he will back down from Greenland. She knows it makes no sense to pass on Nobel prizes …
Frequent-Raisin-2336 on
the venezuelan opossition are derided for being cowards and sellouts, trust me, i’m venezuelan.
jcrestor on
“We gave the price to a Trump fangirl, and now we are very surprised about her acting like a Trump fangirl.“
pbosko on
Trump could become a collector of Nobel Peace Prizes.
He just has to pick the right countries to “liberate”.
frosty3x3 on
Revoke the original award. Make her pay back the money.
Award her the Nobel prize for utter stupidity.
jugalator on
This will definitely have the Norwegian Nobel Committee be more cautious in how they evaluate their candidates. It’s not that it can technically be “given away”, only the symbolic medal. But it still hurts the price and brings it into a light where they don’t want to be. They want to stand above all this.
Still, it’s hard to call them out for being naive. It wasn’t on anyone’s bingo cards that she would do this, much less following an actual attack on Venezuela which was unexpected as well… back when the recipient was decided upon last year.
oddieamd on
Trump got his participation trophy!
salinungatha on
As a Nobel peace prize winner (2012), and a Time Person of the Year (2006), I am deeply upset as I think this cheapens the FIFA peace prize that I’m hoping for.
bitchesbrewmarx on
Why was she awarded it anyway lol? She didn’t do anything, she’s just a talking head for the western ruling class.
RedWarsaw on
If some NFL professional gives me their Super Bowl ring, it doesn’t mean I won the Super Bowl.
Dash_Rendar425 on
Now rescind her award, that would be absolutely hilarious.
highdimensionaldata on
This is the most pathetic shit I’ve ever heard. What a fucking lowlife.
maxutilsperusd on
I can’t imagine being stunned by this. You’d have to have had your head in the stand to not understand Trump over the last decade.
Lumi_Rockets on
Give him a week or so and he’ll start saying he won it.
Moscow-Rules on
Completely devalues the Nobel Prize.
Emergency_Link7328 on
Machado is just like Maduro and Trump.
The Nobel committee needs to be more careful when choosing.
esocz on
However, she will not get the position because Trump’s idea of loyalty is that everyone must be loyal to him, and he feels no loyalty to anyone.
On the contrary, the more you bribe him, the more bribes he will demand.
This can only work in cases such as a single, specific transaction – pay me and I will release you from prison.
professor_goodbrain on
Stunned? People saw this from a mile away. This was the obvious reason she was going to the White House.
ValueBlitz on
Trump: “I want it!!”
Norway: “No. Here you go, Venezuela.”
Trump: “Let’s bomb Venezuela!”
Venezuela: “Here’s your Nobel Peace Prize, sir.”
Trump: “Whatever. Oil, please!! Oh, wait, what do I see in the corner of my eye? Is that Greenland?”
Tall-Warning3135 on
She debased herself. At least maybe he’ll shut up about it now.
indiscretus on
As a Norwegian I’m not stunned nor are any of my fellow country men I’ve spoken to about this.
The prize has nothing to do with the Norwegian people, we do not get to vote on who wins or who the members of the committee should be.
The prize is a sham and has been that way for as long as I’ve lived.
Yoruichi90 on
What the fuck is this timeline, what is going on?
deadlymojo on
What if its the butterfly effect that prevents WW3. Imagine if someone at that art school saw what hitler was going to become and just gave them their slot. /s
eyes_on_everything_ on
The price has been questionable for a very long time but absolutely meaningless now. They made a bad choice by giving it to a person that would literally trade it to gain some political points with a child rapist. So now the price is forever tainted.
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*From Bloomberg News reporter Ott Ummelas and Heidi Taksdal Skjeseth:*
A sense of disbelief gripped Norwegian media and expert community following news that Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado gave her award medal to US President Donald Trump, who had been hankering after the accolade.
“That’s completely unheard of,” Janne Haaland Matlary, a professor with the University of Oslo and a former politician, told public broadcaster NRK. “It’s a total lack of respect for the award, on her part,” she said, calling the act “meaningless” and “pathetic.”
Trump, who has long coveted the peace prize and claims to deserve it for having resolved numerous wars during his second term, accepted the medal from the Venezuelan opposition leader at a White House meeting on Thursday. He has earlier expressed his dissatisfaction with the decision by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
I can’t even recall a movie that depicts events more comical than what is happening with the US administration right now.
dude! i keep saying this!
Pay attention, Denmark and Greenland!
Want to permanently get the orange baboon off your case?
**name trumpty dumpty some silly made up title like “Supreme Protector and Peace bringer to Greenland” or “the one true king of the north, realm protector, lord of Greenland, great Viking warrior and peace bringer”…**
Then you give him one of those princess crowns from kids’ stores, and a diploma made in MS Word,
If they had made a movie with this plot, it would have attracted protests as being demeaning to the US and it’s president.
I can’t think of anyone who deserves the peace prize less than President Trump
this dude seriously obsessed with meaningless pieces of paper for some reason
Sacha Baron Cohen needs to make The Dictator 2, a Bigger Dick
*The whole world* is stunned…. And cringing
Shouldn’t that read “Entire world cringes in secondhand embarrassment…”
There was one other person that gave away his |Nobel| prize (editet “peace”. My bad). Knut Hamsun gave his away to Joseph Goebbels. So Trump is on that list now as well.
And it means nothing that she gave her prize away to Trump, it would be like if someone gave me one of their olympic medals. Does not mean i won one.
We live in the real world South Park episode.
Now Trump will start collecting people’s Nobel Peace Prizes like they’re Infinity Stones.
As a Norwegian, this is my stunned face: -_-
That said, the Nobel peace price is BS and has been for decades.
This is an excellent proof of character about this lady. She is desperate to end up in his good graces, maybe, just maybe he will put her in charge of Venezuela. Makes you wonder if she actually deserved this prize in the first place.
We’re not so much stunned as trying to laugh and cringe at the same time.
Peace prize should be a posthumous award.
May as well gift him a Happy Meal toy for all the significance this has. This is the Cosplay administration.
Little boy needs his gold star sticker to feel special.
Most embarrassing president in the history of the US.
Revoke the prize for her, it’s non transferable.
Disgusting behaviour by her, toddler behaviour by Trump to accept it.
a grifter gifted to another grifter, anyone surprised?
Even Simpson couldn’t predict this shit
Politically prying a Nobel prize out of someone’s hands is not equivalent to winning one. In fact, it disqualifies you from ever winning a legitimate one. Guess who did? Obama.
She knows this is bullshit, she is doing it to appease man-child hoping he will back down from Greenland. She knows it makes no sense to pass on Nobel prizes …
the venezuelan opossition are derided for being cowards and sellouts, trust me, i’m venezuelan.
“We gave the price to a Trump fangirl, and now we are very surprised about her acting like a Trump fangirl.“
Trump could become a collector of Nobel Peace Prizes.
He just has to pick the right countries to “liberate”.
Revoke the original award. Make her pay back the money.
Award her the Nobel prize for utter stupidity.
This will definitely have the Norwegian Nobel Committee be more cautious in how they evaluate their candidates. It’s not that it can technically be “given away”, only the symbolic medal. But it still hurts the price and brings it into a light where they don’t want to be. They want to stand above all this.
Still, it’s hard to call them out for being naive. It wasn’t on anyone’s bingo cards that she would do this, much less following an actual attack on Venezuela which was unexpected as well… back when the recipient was decided upon last year.
Trump got his participation trophy!
As a Nobel peace prize winner (2012), and a Time Person of the Year (2006), I am deeply upset as I think this cheapens the FIFA peace prize that I’m hoping for.
Why was she awarded it anyway lol? She didn’t do anything, she’s just a talking head for the western ruling class.
If some NFL professional gives me their Super Bowl ring, it doesn’t mean I won the Super Bowl.
Now rescind her award, that would be absolutely hilarious.
This is the most pathetic shit I’ve ever heard. What a fucking lowlife.
I can’t imagine being stunned by this. You’d have to have had your head in the stand to not understand Trump over the last decade.
Give him a week or so and he’ll start saying he won it.
Completely devalues the Nobel Prize.
Machado is just like Maduro and Trump.
The Nobel committee needs to be more careful when choosing.
However, she will not get the position because Trump’s idea of loyalty is that everyone must be loyal to him, and he feels no loyalty to anyone.
On the contrary, the more you bribe him, the more bribes he will demand.
This can only work in cases such as a single, specific transaction – pay me and I will release you from prison.
Stunned? People saw this from a mile away. This was the obvious reason she was going to the White House.
Trump: “I want it!!”
Norway: “No. Here you go, Venezuela.”
Trump: “Let’s bomb Venezuela!”
Venezuela: “Here’s your Nobel Peace Prize, sir.”
Trump: “Whatever. Oil, please!! Oh, wait, what do I see in the corner of my eye? Is that Greenland?”
She debased herself. At least maybe he’ll shut up about it now.
As a Norwegian I’m not stunned nor are any of my fellow country men I’ve spoken to about this.
The prize has nothing to do with the Norwegian people, we do not get to vote on who wins or who the members of the committee should be.
The prize is a sham and has been that way for as long as I’ve lived.
What the fuck is this timeline, what is going on?
What if its the butterfly effect that prevents WW3. Imagine if someone at that art school saw what hitler was going to become and just gave them their slot. /s
The price has been questionable for a very long time but absolutely meaningless now. They made a bad choice by giving it to a person that would literally trade it to gain some political points with a child rapist. So now the price is forever tainted.