Top Trump Goon Slams Nobel Foundation for Pointing Out Facts
Key Points:
- Steven Cheung, White House communications director, criticized the Nobel Foundation for stating that Nobel Peace Prizes cannot be regifted, responding to the controversy over President Trump receiving a Nobel medal originally awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.
- Trump has claimed he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, but lost to Machado in October; despite this, he accepted the medal from Machado, who framed it as a gift to him.
- The Nobel Foundation reiterated that the prizes are awarded for significant contributions to humanity and cannot be symbolically transferred or redistributed, emphasizing the need to safeguard the prize's dignity.
- Machado expressed continued support for Trump receiving the prize and described their meeting as sincere, despite political complexities surrounding her opposition to Venezuelan