US President Donald Trump on Friday responded to not receiving this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, asserting that he had “helped” the awardee, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, on several occasions.

Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump claimed that Machado had personally called him after the announcement to say she was accepting the prize “in his honour.”

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“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’”. He humorously remarked, “I didn’t say give to me, though maybe she would have given it to me,” Trump said. “I’ve been helping her all along. Venezuela went through a disaster, and I’m happy because I saved millions of lives.”

Trump also argued that he deserved the No

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