+ ↺ − 16 pxVenezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is set to meet with President Donald Trump on Thursday, according to a senior White House official speaking to CNN. Machado, however, has something Trump has long coveted — a Nobel Prize. Asked on Friday whether receiving Machado’s prize would make him reconsider his view of her role in Venezuela, Trump didn’t directly answer. And that’s what I understand the reason is,” the president told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins during a meeting with oil executives at the White House. “I can’t think of anybody in history that should get the Nobel Prize more than me.

Source: CNN January 12, 2026 18:02 UTC