Trump says he would accept Nobel Prize offered by Machado
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The president's remarks about accepting María Corina Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize sparked serious second-hand embarrassment.
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Trump Tells Hannity He Will Happily Yoink Nobel Peace Prize From Winner If She Offers
Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity that he would be honored to yoink the Nobel Peace Prize if this year's winner were to offer it up.
Trump, 79, is due to host Nobel laureate María Corina Machado in the Oval Office next week, amid a public and behind-the-scenes lobbying campaign to have Machado hand her prize to Trump, both to appease the president and to encourage him to endorse her as a replacement for deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.
Nobel winner and Belarusian dissident Ales Bialiatski told AFP on Thursday that it was "very important" to keep up pressure on Belarus in order to free political prisoners after his first meeting with the Norwegian Nobel Committee.