Donald Trump does not renounce the Nobel Peace Prize and claims to be willing to receive it if María Corina Machado offers it to him at the meeting they will hold this coming week in the United States. The president gave an interview to Fox News in which he announced that he would hold a meeting with the opposition leader as part of his trip to the United States: “I understand that she will come next week and I am looking forward to greeting her.”
The tenant of the White House declared in that same conversation that “it would be a great honor” to receive the Nobel Prize from Machado, who he said was a “very nice person,” before insisting on the “eight wars” that he has stopped.
This is how the president responded to the statements on that same network from the opposition leader who assured that she was willing to share the award she collected last December in Oslo (Norway) and after Trump ruled her out of governing Venezuela after the capture of Maduro and his wife.
In an interview with Fox News on January 6, Machado expressed his interest in telling Trump “in person” that “the Venezuelan people, since this prize (the Nobel Peace Prize) belongs to the Venezuelan people, want to give it to him and share it with him.”
Can the Nobel Peace Prize be shared?
The Nobel Foundation has recalled that its awards are non-transferable and irrevocable in a clarifying statement published after Machado’s statements.
“Once a Nobel Prize is announced, it cannot be revoked, shared or transferred to others. The decision is final and lasts forever,” the Foundation has made known. Although he never mentions Machado by name, he does explain that his statement is a note in response to “requests for comments on the permanence of the status of a Nobel Peace Prize winner.”
The Nobel Foundation wanted to emphasize that its statement will be the only comment it will make regarding this situation and the Norwegian Nobel Committee “will not make statements about what the Nobel Peace Prize winners say or do after receiving it.”
