Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado presented this Thursday to U.S. President Donald Trump the Nobel Peace Prize medal, framed with a message of “gratitude” from the Venezuelan people for his actions to achieve “their freedom”.
Machado used a frame with golden details to place the Nobel medal she presented to the president and on the top she wrote: “In gratitude for your extraordinary leadership to promote peace” and added that it is a detail from the Venezuelan people for his actions to set “their freedom” on track, according to photos of the presentation at the White House disseminated by the official social networks.
Trump and María Corina Machado Meet
President Donald J. Trump meets with María Corina Machado of Venezuela in the Oval Office, during which she presented the President with her Nobel Peace Prize in recognition and honor.🕊️ pic.twitter.com/v7pYHjVNVO
– The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 16, 2026
Trump and Machado had advanced separately on the presentation of the medal, which occurred during the lunch that the Republican offered to the Venezuelan leader in private and without details offered on the topics discussed.
Following the meeting, which is the first meeting after 12 days of the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas by the U.S. armed forces, Machado assured that Trump was committed to the freedom of political prisoners and all Venezuelans.
The Nobel medal, struck in gold and measuring less than seven centimeters in diameter, bears a portrait of Alfred Nobel, a design that has remained virtually unchanged for more than 120 years.
This same Thursday, before the meeting between Trump and Machado, the Nobel Peace Center stressed on social networks that the award “cannot be revoked, shared or transferred to others”, and specified that “a medal can change hands, but the title of Nobel Peace Prize, no”.
Trump brags about the gesture
U.S. President Donald Trump boasted that Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado “presented” him with the medal representing her Nobel Peace Prize during their private meeting at the White House.
Trump, in a post on his official Truth Social account, said it was “a great honor” to meet Machado and that he “presented” her with the award’s insignia because of the “work” she has done during her tenure.
The president added that Machado is “a wonderful woman who has been through a lot” and that the Nobel Prize is a “wonderful gesture of mutual respect”.
Machado had advanced that she offered Trump the Nobel Peace Medal during their first meeting in Washington, 12 days after U.S. military forces executed a mission in Caracas to capture President Nicolás Maduro, who is in a New York jail on drug trafficking charges.
Despite the meeting between the opposition leader and Trump, the Republican Administration insisted on Thursday that the Venezuelan executive currently headed by Delcy Rodríguez is doing a good job complying with Washington’s demands, highlighting the oil issue.
With information from EFE
