After U.S. forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and transported him to a federal detention center in New York City, U.S. President Donald Trump gave his support to Vice President Delcy Rodríguez — not opposition leader María Corina Machado. Rodríguez, an ally of Maduro and the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, is now the South American country's acting president.

Supporters of Machado, a Nobel laureate, were hoping to see her give her Nobel Peace Prize to Trump — the goal, according to Daily Beast reporter Tom Latchem, being getting goal to endorse Machado as Venezuelan president.

Trump endorsed that idea during a Thursday night, January 8 appearance on Fox News. The U.S. president told longtime Fox News host Sean Hannity, "I've heard that she wants to do that. That would be a great honor…. I've stopped eight wars."

But according to the Norwegian Nobel Institute, rules forbid Machado to give someone else her prize.

A Nobel spokesperson told the Daily Beast, "A Nobel Prize can neither be revoked nor transferred to others. Once the announcement of the laureate(s) has been made, the decision stands for all time. As for the prize money, the laureate(s) are free to dispose of it as they see fit."

Latchem notes that Nobel's "organization’s refusal to bend its own rules" will "be a disappointment not just to Trump, but also, to some of his loyalists, who are reported to have lobbied for Machado to hand the president the prize he so covets."

Latchem reports, "Fox News presenter Rachel Campos-Duffy, the wife of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, both 54, is reported to have been working both publicly and privately to get Machado to offer the prize to Trump when they meet next week, according to political journalist Rachael Bade's Substack. Campos-Duffy is said to have worked hard to get Machado the Oval Office audience where she would 'give Trump her Nobel Peace Prize,' Bade writes, saying the push has come from Trump World insiders who know the president is fixated on the award."

Read Tom Latchem's full article for the Daily Beast at this link (subscription required).

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