this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2026

143 points (99.3% liked)

Not The Onion

19799 readers

1595 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

Links to news stories from...
...credible sources, with...
...their original headlines, that...
...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Please also avoid duplicates.

Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

kescusay@lemmy.world

143

Trump to meet Venezuela’s Machado and says it would be ‘great honor’ to take her Nobel Prize (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Gsus4@mander.xyz to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

22 comments fedilink hide all child comments

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/41381866

Donald Trump has said it would be “an honor” take Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize if she offered it to him, as he prepares to meet the exiled politician next week.

Machado has been in hiding due to persistent threats on her life, emerging only briefly in Oslo after a three-day mission in which she was smuggled out of the country with the help of the U.S. military for the Nobel ceremony.

all 27 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 65 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I fully expect her to give him her medallion, and then he will expect people to complement him on "my Nobel Prize, which I earned fair and square, unlike that lying Obama, who rigged the vote to get it". Anyone who doesn't acknowledge that he is now a Nobel Prize winner will be sent to CECOT.

She will do this, expecting Trump to endorse her to run Venezuela, but he will deport her instead.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 19 points 3 weeks ago

It's going to be like the gulf of america...he's going to sue papers into his alternate reality...

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 48 points 3 weeks ago

"Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize." - Tom Lehrer

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

For him, acquisition is the same as earning it. Technically, it's receiving the prize. In his eyes, there is no difference.

[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 weeks ago

Well the notion of earning something has always been 100% foreign to him all his life, it's a concept that never even intersected with his needs and wants, so yes, i think you're accurate

[–] abcdqfr@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

This is how he has gotten everything in life. Sex, money, fame. Born with a silver spoon right up his ass. This only tracks, should surprise absolutely no-one.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 35 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Nothing says peace prize like one taken from a person for invading their country.

[–] bigchungus@piefed.blahaj.zone 25 points 3 weeks ago

No better satire than reality these days.

[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Tbf, she didn’t deserve it either.

[+] elbarto777@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

[deleted]

[–] Twongo@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

she was begging trump to invade venezuela and claimed if she's in charge she will move the venezuelan embassy to jerusalem. she's a full on neocon zionist

[+] elbarto777@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

[deleted]

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

She addressed the far right European movement Patriots of Europe. This movement is endorsed by people like Marine Le Pen, Viktor Orban, Milei etc major players of today's world pushing world actively to extreme right, bigotry, sexism, anti-immigration and anti-muslim policies etc you name it. The slogan of this group is "Make Europe Great Again", that should tell you all you need about this group.

She congratulated Netanyahu on his “decisive actions” in the “war” in Gaza, declared that "the struggle of Venezuela is the struggle of Israel," and has promised to move Venezuela’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, which would violate international law.

I don't know how much she has done for Venezuela, can't comment on that but if you work with groups that are actively pushing the world to shit, I find it hard to believe that her own goals for her own country can be that good. Far right politics is generally about power and personal gain at the expense of masses.

I also don't know if she is actively a zionist but she has no qualms about supporting zionist and far-right agendas so she can get some bit of political power in her corner of the world. I wouldn't let her walk past near the nobel peace prize. Not that that prize has any credibility any more.

[+] elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

[deleted]

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I can though these are relatively common knowledge and easy to find on internet too. It has even made to wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Corina_Machado#Foreign_policy

Openly anti-communist, Machado is a signatory of the 2020 Madrid Charter.[131][132] In February 2025, Machado addressed a Patriots for Europe rally in Madrid.[133][134] Machado called Javier Milei's victory in the 2023 Argentine presidential election a triumph in the fight for "change" and "freedom" in Latin America,[135] and said that their political projects shared a common thread in the "fundamental role of freedom" professed by Milei.[136] Machado is also a supporter of U.S. president Donald Trump, whom she described in 2025 as a "visionary" in relation to his opposition to the Maduro government in Venezuela.[137][138] Criticism of Machado has come from some Venezuelans who say she has not spoken forcefully against the deportation of Venezuelans under the second Trump administration.[117]

After she won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, Machado stated that Trump "certainly deserves" to win the 2026 award as "in only nine months, so many conflicts have been solved or prevented".[139][140] After he deployed the Navy to the Caribbean in 2025, Machado praised the Trump administration.[31][141] One of her advisors told The New York Times that she has coordinated with the Trump administration and that she has a plan for the first hundred hours after Maduro is deposed.

Regarding the Israel–Palestine conflict, Machado expressed her solidarity with Israel following the 7 October attacks.[147] She thanked Israel for its support of Edmundo González as president-elect,[148] and previously of Guaidó as acting president.[149] Machado planned to reestablish diplomatic relations with Israel, which were cut by President Chávez in 2009 during the 2008–2009 Gaza war.[149] On a 17 October 2025 post on X (formerly Twitter), she said she called the prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to offer thanks "for his warm congratulations to the people of Venezuela on our 2025 Nobel Peace Prize" and express support for Israel.[150] Israel's Prime Minister's Office said that Machado appreciated the ceasefire agreement that secured the release of Israeli hostages and supported Israel's efforts against Iran, which she called a threat to both countries.[150] The Prime Minister's Office also said that Machado generally supported Israel's actions and decisions during the Gaza war and the related Gaza offensive.[151] In another post on X, she wrote that Venezuelans knew that achieving peace "requires immense courage, strength, and moral clarity to stand against the totalitarian forces that oppose us".[152] Although Machado avoided mentioning Israel and Gaza, Israel presented her post as an endorsement of its Gaza offensive due to her calling out "the Iranian regime" as "a key supporter of the Maduro regime", which she said also "backs terrorist organizations like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis".[152]

https://latinoamerica21.com/en/maria-corina-machado-a-controversial-nobel-peace-prize/

Machado has shifted from a conservative tendency (European liberalism/neoliberalism) to frequenting the global far right. In 2024 she drew closer to the Ibero-American far-right project Iberosphere, linked to Spain’s Vox party. And from February 2025 onward, Machado positioned herself more clearly by participating in “Europe Viva 25,” the summit of the Patriots for Europe (PfE) held in Madrid. The Patriots are a constellation of far-right European parties, very powerful in the European Parliament. At this forum, Machado and Milei were the star guests invited by Santiago Abascal (Vox). PfE includes parties such as Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz, Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella’s National Rally (RN), the Dutch Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom (PVV), and Matteo Salvini’s League (Lega), among others, with Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud as an observer.

At the convention—whose slogan, “Make Europe Great Again,” leaves little to the imagination—the cream of the continent’s far right was present, seasoned leaders in dismantling European democracies. The speakers’ narrative delved into the old litany of ultranationalist victimhood. Their bête noires are global multilateral institutions such as the UN, the WHO, or the ICC, as well as the European Union and Muslims.

Machado thanked the forum for the invitation and welcomed the “awakening of European societies” and their appreciation of freedom, hinting at a retreat of democracy in Europe. Nor was there any lack of jubilation—shared by those present—over Donald Trump’s return to the White House. As for Netanyahu, the relationship is longstanding: at the time she congratulated him on his “decisive actions” in the “war” in Gaza and has promised to move Venezuela’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, which would violate international law.

I have not vetted the credibility of this particular news source but the quotes and stuff I put here appeared in multiple news outlets so I don't doubt their reality.

[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I feel like we are living in a world were rich and powerful people are playing some stupid video game that at this point doesn't make any god damn sense and the rest of us are just NPC's forced to bear witness to their stupid antics.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 7 points 3 weeks ago

The obsession with Greenland feels like a game of risk. Same for putin's endless waste of human life.

[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Time to stop handing out the peace prize, it's clearly not having the intended effect. Hand out prizes for evil instead, with medals made of cobalt 60. Would have more positive impact.

[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I personally prefer the idea of a Peace Prize which ensures peace by agreeing on people to take out and putting them into their own worst nightmares. Putin dies by Polonium, but only after several times being told he had ingested polonium, only to find out it was something less-deadly, but much more lastingly unpleasant, like dioxins. By the time they actually give him polonium, they can just not tell him and let him find out for himself. Trump gets to watch as his name is scrubbed from every book, every plaque. Full Akhenaten treatment, only acknowledged as a void in space where a legacy could have been. Every act, undone. Every precedent, removed. Complete Damnatio Memoriae. For the rest of his short life, he is acknowledged only by his prisoner number or, for variety, merely looked at with a sneer of disgust and a plugged nose. That sort of thing.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

he will die by novichik in corticosteroids, his current favorite weapon of choice.

[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I considered it, but Novichok is too quick.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 3 weeks ago

maybe on his UNDERPANTS, and then his tea.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Julian Assange files complaint against Nobel Foundation over Machado prize

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/19/julian-assange-files-complaint-against-nobel-foundation-over-machado-prize

[–] notsosure@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

Let’s hope he doesn’t grab her by the pussy.