The Nobel Peace Prize is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious honors in the world — and Donald Trump has never hidden the fact that he wants it.
He hasn’t received the award himself, but after an extraordinary move involving Venezuela’s opposition leader María Corina Machado, Trump has suddenly found himself at the center of an unexpected Nobel controversy.
The Nobel Peace Prize has rarely been the source of so much controversy — but that changed this year. According to Donald Trump, he should have been the obvious winner. Instead, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.
But after losing out on the prize himself, the President has found a way to symbolically claim it anyway, thanks to an unprecedented gesture from the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner.