The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize went to María Corina Machado of Venezuela instead
Joshua Nair in LADbible (thanks to Bob P.)
The Nobel Peace Prize committee has revealed why Donald Trump missed out on this year’s award.
Trump has made it abundantly clear that he feels like he ‘deserves’ the prize on several occasions, and all eyes were on today’s official announcement following the news of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, which the US President was heavily involved in.
The award instead went to María Corina Machado of Venezuela, the Venezuelan opposition leader who disappeared and went into hiding in August 2024, following elections in the preceding month.
She has been honoured for her contributions to promoting democracy in the South American country, which has been described as a dictatorship by some under current leader Nicolás Maduro.
The chairman of the Nobel Prize committee has now commented on why Trump didn’t walk away with the award, when asked by the press.
Machado wrote a letter from ‘hiding’ to give her thanks to the committee (AFP VIDEOGRAPHICS/AFP via Getty Images)
Jørgen Watne Frydnes, the Nobel Peace Committee’s chairman, was asked about the pressure from the US President and some in the international community to give the award to the 79-year-old, and if the pressure affected their decision at all.
He replied, noting that ‘in the long history’ of awarding the prize, the committee has experienced all types of ‘media tension’, even receiving thousands of letters each year from those who explain ‘what for them leads to peace’. (continued on Page 2 or here)