Trump to accept the Nobel Peace Prize from Maria Corina Machado
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Long ago in a galaxy far away, some random blogger speculated that Trump had invaded Venezuela for a very special and specific reason, and that a very special and specific piece of evidence for this could well appear shortly:
Because with Donald Trump the stupidest explanation is almost invariably the best, I think future historians will conclude after examining the evidence that Trump invaded Venezuela as part of a sustained tantrum over not getting the Nobel Peace Prize. I also believe that the odds are non-negligible that sometime in the next few weeks, Maria Corina Machado goes to Washington, and hands over her Nobel medal to Donald Trump at some deeply inspiring public ceremony, at which she acknowledges with tears in her eyes that he was the real winner because nobody has ever deserved the Nobel Peace Prize as much as Donald Trump.
Imagine if that were a pitch for a political satire. Listen kid you paid for the call; you ain’t bad but we’ve heard it all before:
President Trump indicated on Thursday evening that he will meet with María Corina Machado, Venezuela’s opposition leader, next week in Washington, after refusing to support her to lead the country following the U.S. seizure of Nicolás Maduro.
Ms. Machado has tried to ingratiate herself to Mr. Trump and earlier this week offered to give him the Nobel Peace Prize she was awarded last year. Mr. Trump has long coveted the award.
“I understand she’s coming in next week sometime, and I look forward to saying hello to her,” Trump told the Fox News host Sean Hannity in an interview at the White House.
Ms. Machado led a successful election campaign in 2024 against Mr. Maduro and had the greatest popular legitimacy to lead the nation, but Mr. Trump has said she doesn’t have the necessary support or respect within Venezuela to govern it.
On Monday, Ms. Machado said on Fox News that presenting the prize to Mr. Trump would be a token of gratitude from the Venezuelan people for the removal of Mr. Maduro. She had previously dedicated the award to Mr. Trump.
Mr. Trump said in the Thursday interview that “it would be a great honor” to accept the award, adding that it was “a major embarrassment to Norway,” where the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded, that he had not been given the prize.
Mr. Trump often claims credit for having ended several wars since taking office in January.
When I see this kind of thing I confess to a certain rapt curiosity about exactly how Bari Weiss’s new and improved CBS News, the Principled Conservatives of the National Review, the I don’t support Trump but cadres of the closeted right and the phony left on the nation’s leading editorial pages etc. etc will continue to lovingly fellate the pitifully inadequate mushroom member that at some all too trite and banal psychosexual level is at the root of our present troubles.