Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado lauded Donald Trump on Fox News before beating him to the award that the U.S. president so desperately wanted.

Venezuela’s opposition leader—a staunch critic of President Nicolás Maduro—was named the 2025 laureate on Friday for tirelessly campaigning for democracy in her home country.

The decision has infuriated MAGAworld, who were also desperate to see their hero win the gong and its $1 million prize after his frantic lobbying.

Their annoyance has been compounded after Machado, a month earlier, used a hit on Trump’s favorite news channel to hail his hard-line posture against Venezuelan “narco-terrorists,” days after the White House boasted of a U.S. strike on an alleged drug boat.

Giving the sort of brave interview that saw the Norwegian

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