The Daily Populous Saturday January 10th, 2026 evening edition
Authored by livemint.com and submitted by nishitd

US President Donald Trump has boldly claimed that he would accept the Nobel Peace Prize from this year's winner, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, if she offers it to him during their meet next week. The Nobel Committee, however, has firmly shut the door on the idea, reiterating that Nobel Prizes cannot be revoked, shared or transferred, once announced.

“The facts are clear and well established. Once a Nobel Prize is announced, it cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others. The decision is final and stands for all time,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee and the Norwegian Nobel Institute said in a statement on Friday.

Maria Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize 2025 last year, for her relentless advocacy for democracy in Venezuela, beating US President Donald Trump's chances of securing the award.

Trump, had time and again claimed that he should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Courtesy – his claims of 'stopping eight wars.'

The POTUS said one should get a Nobel Prize for "every war you stopped. These were major wars. These were wars that nobody thought could have stopped".

Trump-Machado meeting amid US-Venezuela tensions The US President voiced his willingness to accept the prestigious award from Machado after he said he learnt that the Venezuelan opposition leader wants to share the prize with him.

His claims and scheduled meeting with Machado comes at a time when US-Venezuela tensions are at an all-time high after its disposed President Nicolas Maduro's capture and Trump's subsequent claims on the country's vast oil reserves. "I think it's very nice she wants to come in, and that's what I understand the reason is," he said.

Why US attacked Venezuela? US' ‘large scale strike’ against Venezuela, during which Maduro was captured – followed after months of military buildup in the region, with the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier and numerous other warships positioned in the Caribbean.

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The US has repeatedly accused Venezuelan president Maduro of being one of the world’s leading narco-traffickers – alleging that he worked with cartels to flood the US with fentanyl-laced cocaine.

In 2020, federal prosecutors claimed that Maduro and other senior Venezuelan government officials collaborated with the Colombian guerilla group Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, or FARC, to traffic cocaine and weapons to the United States.

Arefue on January 10th, 2026 at 14:23 UTC »

The party of "no participation trophies" is being goofy af right now.

Remarkable_Watch_321 on January 10th, 2026 at 14:07 UTC »

Trump's major goal in life seems to be to outdo the last stupid thing he did.

Guilty-Top-7 on January 10th, 2026 at 13:59 UTC »

What kind of a person would try and steal a Nobel Peace Prize? That’s pretty damn sad.