{"id":52260,"date":"2026-01-06T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=52260"},"modified":"2026-01-06T21:51:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T03:51:31","slug":"machado-says-she-certainly-wants-to-give-nobel-to-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=52260","title":{"rendered":"Machado says she \u2018certainly\u2019 wants to give Nobel to Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Venezuelan opposition leader Mar\u00eda Corina Machado\u2002<\/u><\/a>wants to give her 2025 Nobel Peace Prize<\/u><\/a> to President Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI certainly would love to be able to personally tell him that we believe \u2014 the Venezuelan people, because this is a prize of the Venezuelan people, want to give it to him and share it with him,\u201d Machado told host Sean Hannity\u2002<\/u><\/a>on Fox News\u2019s \u201cHannity.\u201d<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Machado has backed Trump\u2019s aggressive posture toward the Maduro regime and dedicated her Nobel Prize<\/u><\/a> to the people of Venezuela and the president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just more than three days since the U.S. captured and arrested<\/u><\/a> Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, the long-term future of the South American nation is unclear. While Venezuela\u2019s high court has named Vice President Delcy Rodr\u00edguez as interim leader, Trump has said the U.S. will run the country<\/u><\/a> until an orderly transition can occur. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t want to be involved with having somebody else get in, and we have the same situation that we had for the last long period of years,\u201d the president said at a press conference Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump also told reporters that Machado lacks the support or respect<\/u><\/a> to govern Venezuela and was not consulted on the operation beforehand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The former National Assembly member won the opposition primary two years ago, but Maduro barred her from running against him in the general election, and she backed Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez. While Maduro claimed victory in the July 2024 election, international observers dismissed the government\u2019s election data as statistically improbable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Machado then went into hiding in her own country for more than a year, before reappearing last month in Oslo, Norway, where her daughter accepted her prize on her behalf.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, though, she said she plans to return to Venezuela as soon as she can<\/u><\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m planning to go back to Venezuela as soon as possible,\u201d she told Hannity. \u201cAs I\u2019ve always said, Sean, every day, I make a decision [about] where I am more useful for our cause.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Venezuelan opposition leader Mar\u00eda Corina Machado\u2002wants to give her 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to President Trump. \u201cI certainly would love to be able to personally tell him that we believe \u2014 the Venezuelan people, because this is a prize of the Venezuelan people, want to give it to him and share it with him,\u201d Machado told host Sean Hannity\u2002on Fox […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":52262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5480,10209,27653],"class_list":["post-52260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-give","tag-machado","tag-venezuelan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52264,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52260\/revisions\/52264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}