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María Corina Machado, leader of the Venezuelan opposition, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, and the timing is kind of hilarious. If Machado ever succeeds in overthrowing her country’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump will claim credit for that, like he’s claimed credit for so many recent international successes. (To be fair, Trump’s forceful anti-Madura policies, which the Nobel winner has supported, will have certainly played a role.)

Still, Trump must have been fuming on Friday over the news from Oslo—not only that he didn’t win for manufacturing the recent Gaza ceasefire breakthrough in negotiations between Israel and Hamas, but that he lo

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