Nobel Peace Prize 2025: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, while US President Donald Trump was passed over despite nominations from Republicans, world leaders, and himself.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee cited Machado “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”

Trump’s Nobel hopes fall short

Trump, who has long expressed his desire for the Nobel, has frequently highlighted his role in ending global conflicts. “They’ll have to do what they do. Whatever they do is fine. I know this: I didn’t do it for that. I did it because I saved a lot of lives,” Trump said Thursday.

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