US President Donald Trump met with María Corina Machado of Venezuela in the Oval Office, during which she presented him with her Nobel Peace Prize, on January 15 (Photo | The White House)
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Trump’s Nobel tirades aren’t done even after getting someone else’s medallion

Express News Service

Hell hath no fury like Trump scorned. The US president has written to Norway’s prime minister that he doesn’t feel obliged “to think purely of peace” because he did not get the Nobel prize. The note was in reply to Norwegian PM Jonas Gahr Stoere and Finnish President Alexander Stubb opposing his decision to impose tariffs on European allies who do not agree with his plan to control Greenland. Last week, María Corina Machado gifted her Nobel medallion to Trump. But the Norwegian Nobel Committee explained that the prize “cannot be revoked, shared or transferred”. One wonders what pleasure the petulant billionaire gets with another shiny disc. Maybe it’s similar to the feeling coursing through the unknown mastermind behind the 2004 theft of Rabindranath Tagore’s Nobel medal.

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