Some folks may be wondering at María Corina Machado giving her 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to American President Trump, as if the medal had worth in and of itself.
It does not. Meant to identify someone who has made significant contributions to peace, it’s not like a football. To possess such a medal … maybe you bought it at a garage sale.
And the point is that when a monster is loose in your land, as Trump is in Venezuela, you feed it unimportant stuff until satiated, and hope the damage isn’t too severe. Trump wants a medal? Fine, have the medal. All the adults are well aware he did not win it; it’s merely an insignificant spoil of an unwise war.
I expect that when Trump is arrested and imprisoned, the medal will be returned, if not by J. D. Vance, who’ll probably succeed Trump, then by whoever succeeds Vance.
And “Trump’s Nobel Prize” will become the stuff of trivia contests, probably under the heading of Mental Illness.
