Nobel Peace Prize Rejects Trump, Puts Venezuela’s Hide-and-Seek Champ First

The Norwegian Nobel Committee shattered Donald Trump’s ‘peace prize dreams’ this Friday by awarding Venezuelan opposition star María Corina Machado, a 58-year-old industrial engineer currently playing politics like hide-and-seek—sidelined from running by Maduro’s courts but crowned for fighting dictatorship. Meanwhile, Trump, who keeps nominating himself since the Trump presidency without a single win, bragged to the UN this September about stopping 'unendable wars'—a punchline no one’s laughing at, especially given 22% of Americans (barely half of his own party) think he should win. Netanyahu even threw him a nomination party in July. Spoiler: Machado won while Trump posted about a 'Strong, Durable, and Everlasting Peace' deal between Israel and Hamas on Truth Social two days prior—because nothing says Nobel-worthy like social media peace treaties.

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Source: Axios | Published: 10/10/2025 | Author: Julianna Bragg