The Norwegian Prize Committee is going to run out of crying towels very soon. Venezuelan Opposition Leader Maria Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 and then gifted it to President Donald J. Trump when she visited the White House last week. The overly sensitive committee types have a combined TDS score of terminal. Waah!

Did you see this from The Hill?

Norwegian Labour Party lawmaker Raymond Johansen on Thursday ripped President Trump for accepting the Nobel Peace Prize from Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.

Machado presented Trump with the prize Thursday during a White House meeting after months of lauding the president in his push to oust regime leader Nicolás Maduro and for his war on drug cartels.

“This is incredibly embarrassing and damaging for one of the world’s most recognized and important awards,” Johansen wrote in a Thursday post on Facebook. “The awarding of the award is now so politicized and potentially dangerous that it can easily legitimize an anti-peace prize development.”

“Unbelievable that she actually gave the award to Trump. What on earth is the Nobel Committee going to say? To be continued,” he added.

It’s a good thing trees cover over one-third of Norway. They are going to need a lot more tissues.

#NobelPeacePrize Norwegian Nobel Committee : “Once a Nobel Prize is announced, it cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others. The decision is final and stands for all time.” A medal can change owners, but the title of a Nobel Peace Prize laureate cannot.#TrumpTerrorist pic.twitter.com/BsriazN6rX

— Balexx (@balex55x) January 16, 2026

I don’t get it. What’s the big whoop? Maria Corina Machado will always be listed as the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize Winner. Other Nobel Peace Prize winners have sold theirs. From Time Magazine:

Dmitry Muratov (Peace)

The Russian journalist won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 for fighting for press freedom and standing up to Russian authorities.

He sold his medal the following year at auction for $103.5 million, which he gave to UNICEF’s fund for Ukrainian refugee children. This is the highest price ever paid for a Nobel Prize medal.

Kofi Annan (Peace)

The former secretary-general of the United Nations was a co-recipient of the Peace prize in 2001. He was given the honor for his prioritization of human rights and for “his commitment to the struggle to contain the spreading of the HIV virus in Africa and his declared opposition to international terrorism,” according to the Nobel Foundation.

Following Annan’s death in 2018, his widow, Nane Annan, donated his medal in 2024 to the United Nations’ office in Geneva so that, she said, his legacy could continue inspiring future generations. The medal remains on permanent display there.

Christian Lous Lange (Peace)

Lange, Norway’s first Nobel Peace Prize laureate, received the honor in 1921 along with the Swede Hjalmar Branting for what the committee described as “their lifelong contributions to the cause of peace and organized internationalism.”

Both Lange and Branting “wanted to strengthen the new world organization the League of Nations,” according to the Nobel Foundation. Branting was Sweden’s Prime Minister at the time they were awarded the prize, while Lange became secretary-general of the Inter-Parliamentary Union—an international organization of national parliaments—in 1909 and managed the organization through the first World War. Lange later went on to become a member of the Nobel Committee in 1934.

The Lange family has loaned the prize to the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, where it has been since 2005. It is the only original peace prize permanently on public display in Norway.

Carlos Saavedra Lamas (Peace)

The foreign minister of Argentina received the Peace prize in 1936 for his part in ending the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay. His medal was sold at auction for $1.1 million to a private Asian buyer. The estate of another private collector in New York, who had owned it for roughly a decade, made the sale.

The Peace Prize means a lot less since Barack Obama won it in October of 2009.

The exact moment I realized the Nobel Peace Prize was worthless.

Barack Obama had done nothing worthy to this point and went on to destroy nations, create ISIS, and decimated the American healthcare system. pic.twitter.com/2nLyT6a1jn

— Kurt Schemers (@KurtSchemers) January 16, 2026

It’s so peaceful to drone American citizens from the sky.

The reporter below is an absolute dunce. Imagine that Trump invites you to the White House. You offer him a gift and he turns it down. Oh hale no. That’s bad manners. It will go in the Trump Presidential Library.

I guarantee you that Trump’s Library will look better than Obama’s. Bank it. It will be built better too. As guarantors of Venezuela, Trump and Machado will be linked together throughout history. It is fitting and proper that he should hold on to the Nobel Peace Prize until Venezuela is more stable and Machado can comfortably enter into her country for the first time in a long time. In the meantime, it is safe.

Cry harder, Norwegians.

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