After missing out on the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, US President Donald Trump,  claimed that the Venezuelan winner Maria Corina Machado accepted the award ‘in honour’ of him as he had extended assistance to her on multiple occasions.

While speaking to the reporter at the White House, the Republican President 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 am happy because I saved millions of lives.”

Machado was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for standing up for and promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela, as well as her efforts to secure a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

Trump, who hoped to win the prize for his efforts to “end seven wars,” also referenced the war in Ukraine in his broader peacemaking claims. “I said, ‘Well, what about the seven others? I should get a Nobel Prize for each one. So they said, ‘But if you stop Russia and Ukraine, sir, you should be able to get the Nobel.’ I said I stopped seven wars. That’s one war, and that’s a big one,” he told the gathering, listing conflicts he said were halted under his leadership, including “Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kosovo and Serbia, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, Rwanda and the Congo.”

Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday said that Trump deserved the award. In a social media post, he wrote, “Give @realDonaldTrump the Nobel Peace Prize – he deserves it!”
The Norwegian Nobel Committee described Maria Corina Machado as a “brave and committed champion of peace” and stated that the Prize has been awarded to a “woman who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness.”