President Donald Trump did not win a Nobel Peace Prize this week, despite loudly campaigning in his own favor.

Rather than the U.S. president, who has recently, repeatedly, boasted that he deserves the prize, this year's Peace Prize went to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.

On Friday, Oct. 10, it was announced that the award was going to a "brave and committed champion of peace" as Machado, 58, was declared the recipient of the 2025 prize for her "tireless work promoting democratic rights of Venezuela."

Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said Machado meets "all the criteria" laid out by Alfred Nobel for the prize, adding she has "brought the country's opposition together, being steadfast in her support for a peaceful transition to democracy.

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