The White House responded to the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a Venezuelan opposition activist María Corina Machado by saying the prize committee was playing politics by not giving it to President Donald Trump .

"The Nobel Committee proved they place politics over peace," White House Communications Director Steven Cheung wrote on social media.

Machado, meanwhile, stopped to thank the American president on the day she won the honor. She dedicated her prize to the Venezuelan people and Trump "for his decisive support of our cause!"

"We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democ

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