Trump Wants to Take a Nobel Prize That Isn’t His
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The Bulwark
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🗓️ 11 January 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:51.0 | Let me just, let me just set the stage here about this whole Trump Maria Karina Machado |
| 0:56.5 | Nobel Prize thing and then we'll get into it. All right. Right after they're raiding Caracas |
| 1:01.7 | where they set in the special forces and they got Nicholas Maduro, the dictator of Venezuela |
| 1:07.2 | and his wife, and they brought them out to the United States to face criminal charges. |
| 1:13.1 | And a few hours later, Trump held this big press conference where he said, we're going to run |
| 1:17.4 | Venezuela. And they said, oh, what about the Venezuelan opposition leader who just won the |
| 1:23.7 | Nobel Peace Prize, Maria Karina Machado, who also, by the way, we apparently helped |
| 1:28.4 | escape from Venezuela, where she was obviously living and hiding and all that. And Trump said, |
| 1:33.3 | just to remind us that he's not a gangster, she doesn't have the respect. She's a very nice |
| 1:39.0 | woman, but she doesn't have the respect. Any comments so far? Oh my God. Take the canoli. Um, yeah. |
| 1:48.9 | You know, so her designated, they didn't allow her to run in that election, as everybody knows. The Venezuelans didn't, |
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