Key Highlights
- She said, you know, you have ended eight wars, and nobody deserves this prize more than - in history - than you do.
- And I thought it was a very nice gesture." Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said she presented her Nobel Peace Prize to US President Trump, who described it as a "wonderful gesture of mutual respect," during the Thursday meeting at the White House.
- Machado, who has on previous occasions said that she would give her Nobel prize to Trump.
- A White House official confirmed to news agency Reuters that Trump intends to keep the medal.
- A photograph released on social media shows Machado standing in the Oval Office with Trump, who is holding a frame that contains the Nobel Peace Prize, with a caption "the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize Medal awarded to Maria Corina Machado.""To President Donald J Trump - In gratitude for your extraordinary leadership in promoting peace through strength, advancing diplomacy and defending liberty and prosperity," a message accompanying the medal said."Presented as a personal symbol of gratitude on behalf of the Venezuelan people in recognition of President Trump's principled and decisive action to secure a free Venezuela.
