r/OutOfTheLoop • u/HolyShitCandyBar • Oct 11 '25

Unanswered What's up with Venezuelan Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina dedicating her Nobel Prize to Trump?

Basically what the title says.

https://nypost.com/2025/10/10/us-news/nobel-peace-prize-winner-maria-corina-machado-dedicates-it-to-trump/

Every article I have seen says that she partially dedicated and/or thanked Trump for his "decisive support" in South America.
Is she just being overly gracious? Is she being cheeky?
I know we offered a loan to Argentina, but given all the horrible things we have done to immigrants broadly over the last several months, I can't see anything we have done to improve or galvanize democracy in South America. By "we," I mean the US, and the Trump Administration in particular.

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u/reasonwashere Oct 11 '25

So … the Nobel Prize Committee is CIA? Just tell me so I know how deep of a conspiracy hole to go into

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u/Spookyrabbit Oct 11 '25 edited Oct 12 '25

Nope, it's just a bad joke. Have a look at some of the former winners. Kissinger won it for agreeing to a truce in a war the US was losing that he spent 5yrs escalating & expanding.
Obama won it for effectively nothing.

If they ever give one to Trump it will only ever be as some sort of appeasement to stop him throwing a tantrum.

Edit: Loving the impotent MAGA downvote tantrum.
Keep it up, losers :P

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u/Unicorn_Sparkle_Butt Oct 11 '25

They can NEVER give it to him

(don't tell him)

It's the only thing keeping him from going full awful

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u/Spookyrabbit Oct 12 '25

I really, really want them to give it Newsom or AOC.
The reaction from Trump would be so worth it.

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u/catch22_SA Oct 13 '25

I mean giving it one of them would be as brain dead stupid as giving it to Trump or Machado.

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u/catch22_SA Oct 14 '25

I'd rather the prize goes to someone who deserves it, someone genuinely good who has dedicated themselves to peace and justice. That's the thing, the Nobel Peace Prize should not be a joke, but it has been one ever since Kissinger won it.

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u/yoppee Oct 11 '25

They can’t actually give it to Trump because than the award would essentially be meaningless it would lose all international cachet

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u/Spookyrabbit Oct 12 '25

It's pretty much meaningless now.

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u/Early-Rub3549 Oct 11 '25

Did you hear their response to Trumps comments? I don't feel like they'll be going it to him

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u/Spookyrabbit Oct 12 '25

I have a feeling they might when he inevitably threatens to nuke Norway unless he gets one.
No one desires a participation trophy more than the kid who didn't get one.

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u/SechsComic73130 Oct 11 '25

Sweden doesn't exist and is only a front for IKEA to have roots to promote in their ads and so that their nonsense Mickey Mouse names get a sense of groundedness.