{"id":160944,"date":"2026-01-15T15:10:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=160944"},"modified":"2026-01-15T15:10:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:10:05","slug":"you-get-a-nobel-prize-and-you-get-a-nobel-prize-and-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/15\/you-get-a-nobel-prize-and-you-get-a-nobel-prize-and-you.html","title":{"rendered":"YOU get a Nobel Prize, and YOU get a Nobel Prize, and YOU …!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has told reporters that she “presented” her 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to Donald Trump when they met today.<\/p>\n

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Mar\u00eda Corina Machado \u2018Presented\u2019 Donald Trump With Her Nobel Peace Prize<\/div>
Mar\u00eda Corina Machado told Fox News that she presented the Nobel Peace Prize she won to President Donald Trump when she met with him at the White House.<\/div>
www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/maria-corina-machado-presented-donald-trump-with-her-nobel-peace-prize\/<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

I’m torn.\u00a0 Assuming Trump “accepted’ the prize (something I would wager a small amount of money that he did), should we …<\/p>\n

Point and laugh<\/strong> at Trump getting a second-hand Nobel Peace Prize (and at the concept that he even deserves one), esp. since they are non-transferable and because it’s such a bald-faced attempt to curry favor?<\/p>\n

Or stay quiet<\/strong> and let Trump bask in his own ego space so that maybe he will STFU about how much he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize because he has stopped two hundred wars since he came to office, and blew up some people really bigly in the cause of peace?<\/p>\n

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Should we all point and laugh, or stay quiet at the Emperor’s New Nobel Prize?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[349,1071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military","category-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/nobel-peace-medal.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":160960,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/19\/the-toddler-in-chief.html","url_meta":{"origin":160944,"position":0},"title":"The Toddler-in-Chief","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 19-Jan-26 12:01pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Watching a toddler throw a tantrum is sometimes amusing, often aggravating. 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