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Venezuela’s opposition leader Maria Corina Machado made good on her promise to gift her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Donald Trump.

Images released by the White House shows Trump posing with his Nobel Peace Prize medal presented to him by Machado in the Oval Office on Thursday.

Photo of President Trump's Nobel Peace Prize
White House

“I presented the President of the United States the medal of the Nobel Peace Prize, and I told him this, listen to this: Two hundred years ago, General Lafayette gave Simón Bolívar a medal with George Washington’s face on it… Bolívar since that kept that medal for the rest of his life,” Machado told reporters after her meeting with Trump.

“Two hundred years in history, the people of Bolívar are giving back to the heir of Washington a medal, in this case the medal of the Nobel Peace Prize, as a recognition for his unique commitment with our freedom.”

After Trump captured former President Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela in early January, Machado told Sean Hannity that said she decided to give Trump her Nobel Peace medal because she believed he deserved it more than she did.

Maduro is being held in a federal detention center in Brooklyn. His Vice President Delcy Rodriguez is acting as interim president of Venezuela until elections are held.

Venezuelans expressed their gratitude to Trump and Machado on social media.

X (Twitter) user Devorah Sasha (@devorahsasha) wrote in Spanish:
“A gesture of respect and gratitude to the only leader who actually did something to defeat the terrorism that crushed the decent people of Venezuela.
Thank you @MariaCorinaYA.
Thank you @POTUS.”

But others are furious with Trump and Machado.

“This level of desperation is unreal,” wrote Fidow (@Iamfidow) on X. “@realDonaldTrump already said publicly, ‘She doesn’t have the support or the respect within the country,’ yet she’s still clinging to him for relevance.”