US President Donald Trump has claimed that Maria Corina Machado, this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner, called him to say she was accepting the prestigious award “in honour” of him.

Machado, a Venezuelan opposition leader, was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to promote democratic rights and lead a peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy in Venezuela.

Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump said, “The person who got the Nobel Prize called me today and said, ‘I am accepting this in honour of you because you really deserved it.’ I didn’t say, ‘Give it to me,’ though. I think she might have. I’ve been helping her along the way… They needed a lot of help in Venezuela during the disaster. I’m happy because I saved millions of lives.”

Trump, who had anticip

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