The White House on Friday complained that President Donald Trump was snubbed for the Nobel Peace Prize because the award's committee placed "politics over peace."

But the prize's actual recipient, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado , said she was partly dedicating the award to Trump for supporting her efforts to promote democracy in her country.

Machado said in an X post that her cause of achieving freedom and democracy depends on Trump and other key allies.

"I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!" she wrote.

Machado's shoutout came less than three hours after White House communications director Steven Cheung claimed that by snubbing Trump, "The Nobel Committee proved they place p

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