Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado says she, and the people of Venezuela, “certainly” wants to share/give her Nobel Peace Prize to United States President Donald Trump after he captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
In October 2025, President Trump notably lost the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, after campaigning for the big honor. Speaking on Machado’s win, the committee said they awarded her the 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.”
The committee added:
“María Corina Machado has shown that the tools of democracy are also the tools of peace. She embodies the hope of a different future, one where the fundamental rights of citizens are protected and their voices are heard. In this future, people will finally be free to live in peace.”
Reacting to the news, Machado said in a statement on X:
“This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom. I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!”
Donald Trump Claims Venezuelan Opposition Leader María Corina Machado Told Him He Deserved 2025 Nobel Peace Prize Over Her
Steven Cheung, Donald Trump’s aide and White House’s Director of Communications, reacted and said:
“The Nobel Committee proved they place politics over peace. President Trump will continue making peace deals, ending wars, and saving lives. He has the heart of a humanitarian, and there will never be anyone like him who can move mountains with the sheer force of his will.”
Later that evening, Trump addressed his loss with press and claimed the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner called him and said that he really deserved the award. He said:
“The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today, called me and said, ‘I’m accepting this in honor of you, because you really deserved it.’ A very nice thing to do. I didn’t, I didn’t say, ‘Then give it to me,’ though I think she might have. She was very nice. I’ve been helping her along the way. They need a lot of help in Venezuela, it’s a basic disaster. So, and you could also say it was given out for ’24 and I was running for office in ‘24.”
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Venezuelan Opposition Leader María Corina Machado ‘Certainly’ Wants To Give Nobel Peace Prize To Donald Trump After Nicolás Maduro Capture
Nearly three months after losing the Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, Donald Trump captured the nation’s president, Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores.
On January 3, 2026, during U.S. military airstrikes on key Venezuelan targets, amid “Operation Absolute Resolve,” U.S. special forces captured Maduro and Flores at a residence in Caracas. The couple were put on a plane and brought to New York. DEA agents (Drug Enforcement Agency) then took the couple to a DEA field office for processing. They were then transferred to Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC Brooklyn), where they remain and await trial on narcoterrorism charges.
Following Maduro’s capture, Machado praised Trump and claimed she and the rest of the opposition in Venezuela are “grateful.” During a Fox News interview on Monday (January 5), Machado said she “certainly” wants to give/share her 2025 Nobel Peace Prize with Trump. She said:
“You went to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, and I want you to tell us you never went back at that point. Did you not go back because you feared for your life? And tell us, I mean, it’s not very usual that people will dedicate the Nobel Peace Prize to the leader of a different country and say publicly, he deserves this more than I do. But you did that.
Let me be very clear. As soon as I learned that we had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, I dedicated to President Trump because I believed at that point that he deserved it. And a lot of people, most people, said it was impossible to achieve what he has just done on Saturday, January 3rd.
So, if I believed he deserved it on October, imagine now. I think he has proven to the world what he means. I mean, January 3rd will go down in history as the day justice defeated a tyranny. It’s a milestone. And it’s not only huge for the Venezuelan people and our future. I think it’s a huge step for humanity, for freedom and human dignity.
I spoke with President Trump on October 10th, the same day the prize was announced. Not since then, but I do want to say today, on behalf of the Venezuelan people, how grateful we are for his courageous vision, the actions—historical actions he has taken against this narco-terrorist regime to start dismantling this structure and bringing Maduro to justice — which means that 30 million Venezuelans are now closer to freedom, but also that the United States of America is a safer country nowadays
Well, it hasn’t happened yet, but I certainly would love to be able to personally tell [Trump] that we believe—the Venezuelan people, because this is a prize of the Venezuelan people—certainly want to give it to him and share it with him. What he has done, as I said, is historic. It’s a huge step towards a democratic transition.”
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