New in PJ Media (note: this was written before Machado dedicated her Prize to Trump):
The recipient of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been announced, and the winner’s initials are not DJT. The Peace Prize this year goes to María Corina Machado, who is a leader of the opposition to leftist dictator Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela. Machado, according to the Norwegian Nobel top dogs, “keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness.”
That’s good. That’s an altogether noble thing to do. But noble doesn’t necessarily mean Nobel. Machado, for all her courageous work, is not a world-historical figure, as she herself is fully aware. Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel committee, was able to get Machado on the phone before the announcement that she had won the prize was made, and said that “it came as a surprise” to the recipient herself.
Edmundo González, another Venezuelan opposition figure who has worked with Machado and is now living in Spain in exile, also got the Nobel laureate on the phone, and posted a brief video of their conversation, in which she said, “I am in shock. I cannot believe it.”
Frydnes, however, did his best to give the impression that there was no reason to be shocked, explaining, “She is receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”
Nevertheless, the whole world knows that the primary reason that María Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize is because she is not Donald Trump, and is a reasonably plausible recipient whom Nobel wonks think will help them deflect criticism that they’re a hopelessly politicized organization that would never dream of honoring Trump because the globalist socialist elites consider him to be the focus of evil in the modern world.
After all, Maduro is a leftist leader, right? And Machado opposes him, right? So you see? The Nobel committee isn’t afraid to pick people who oppose the left!
Sure. But Trump was right when he said last February, “They will never give me a Nobel Peace Prize. It’s too bad. I deserve it, but they will never give it to me.” He couldn’t get it this year for the Gaza peace deal, as the deadline had already passed, but he could have gotten it for the Abraham Accords and other achievements of his first term. He was also right when he said Thursday that Barack Obama “got a prize for doing nothing… He got elected, and they gave it to Obama for doing absolutely nothing but destroying our country… Obama was not a good president.”
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࿗Infidel࿘ says
I would have expected them to give it to some Leftist activist somewhere in the world. I’m surprised that they chose an anti-Left activist like Machado to receive it. However, congratulations to her: I do hope that like some other winners, she goes on to one day become a, if not the, leader of her country
Just watched her interview on Fox w/ Rachel Campos Duffy, and she was very gracious in dedicating her prize not just to her people, but to President Trump as well. Nobody who wanted this prize for Trump should be even slightly disappointed that she won it!
Walter Sieruk says
That “peace deal” overlooks the fact that those Muslims terrorists of Hamas who committed all those brutal cruel atrocities are getting away with complete and total impunity for the many horrific evil actions they committed. As mass murderers and kidnapping then the horrendous criminal affronts, they performed on the people who they had kidnapped and held hostage. Awful things as sexual assault and outright rapes. as well torture and starvation of their hostages. Those wicked and vicious Hamas terrorists even kept the people who they had kidnapped locked in small dark dirty hot isolated rooms.
After World War II, many Nazi’s had to give ab account for the evil things they did and were punished for their war crimes. The same war crimes trials and punishments need to be done to those Muslim terrorists of Hamas.
Walter Sieruk says
Some people call this hoax the “Trump peace plan.” It’s really more in keeping with reality to call it the “Trump armistice plan “or simply the “Trump truce deal.”
The reason why this is so because any kind of “deal “ with Hamas is , in essence,” making a “deal with the devil.” For the Muslims terrorists chiefs of Hamas can’t be trusted to keep they word or promise in anything that they say on sign in print. To put it in another way, the top dogs of Hamas are such liars that their signing their names on written peace agreement document isn’t worth the paper its printed on.
For they will only keep the terms of that “agreement” only as long as it would suite them and no longer. They will engage in the insidious the Islamic dogma called Taqiyya .This is the Islamic doctrine the deception is a good thing to do as long as it’s done for the advancement of Islam along with its violent and death inflicting jihad.
They will that so called “peace deal’ to stall for time while that Islamic regime of Iran resupplies Hamas with deadly weapons so that it will again launch jihad attacks into the State of Israel attempting to murder the citizens of Israel.
gravenimage says
Somebody Wins the Nobel Peace Prize
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Glad to see this–pleasantly surprised, for once.
Sadly, Hamas will be back to attacking Israelis in no time.
OLD GUY says
That attack would happen no matter what, Islam will never stop its attacks on the Jewish state or people. Ham-Ass may go put it will be replaced by another jihadist force to continue the attacks on Israel.
Jenny H says
The other Nobel prizes might have some validity and be evidence of achievement I science and literature but the Peace Prize has often seemed to be next to useless as a sign of merit. President Trump should have received the peace prize before now. That he hasn’t devalues the award.
Let's MAGA says
The award was for 2024. If Trump were not to win next year, there would be reason to cry foul. Until then…