President Donald Trump is still stewing about being passed over for the Nobel Peace Prize.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the prize Trump has long chased to Venezuelan democracy advocate and opposition leader María Corina Machado on Friday.

White House Communications Director Steven Cheung quickly lashed out at the announcement, accusing the committee of choosing “politics over peace.” Trump, for his part, tried to play it cool by boasting about Machado’s tribute to him.

“The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today, called me, and said ‘I’m accepting this in honor of you, because you really deserved it.’ A really nice thing to do,” the president said on Friday.

But as the president departed for Tel Aviv, Israel on Sunday to tout the Gaza peace deal he helped bro

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