After missing out on the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, US President Donald Trump, on Friday, claimed that the Venezuelan winner Maria Corina Machado accepted the award ‘in honour’ of him as he had extended assistance to her on multiple occasions.

While speaking to the reporter at the White House, the Republican President said, “The person who got the Nobel Prize called me today and said, ‘I am accepting this in honour of you because you really deserved it’… I didn’t say, ‘Give it to me’, though. I think she might have… I’ve been helping her along the way. They needed a lot of help in Venezuela during the disaster. I am happy because I saved millions of lives.”

Machado was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for standing up for and promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela, as well

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