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Trump has Machado’s Nobel Prize, but neither got what they really wanted
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Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado presenting US President Donald Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize medal in the Oval Office, on Jan 15.
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David E. Sanger
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WASHINGTON – Ever since US President Donald Trump first took office in 2017, he has been obsessed with the Nobel Peace Prize, and has made no effort to hide his deep sense of injustice that then President Barack Obama won it in 2009 for, in the eyes of the Nobel committee, his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”.
Mr Trump has a different view, which he offered in an interview with The New York Times last week: Mr Obama “was there for a few weeks, and he got it. He didn’t even know why he got it”. Mr Trump then recited the now-familiar list of “eight wars” he claims to have stopped.
