President Donald Trump is making 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado "grovel" to him, according to one prominent conservative.
In a Friday segment on her show "The Source,"Friday segment on her show "The Source," CNN host Kaitlan Collins played video of President Donald Trump answering a question from Collins about Machado's upcoming visit to the White House. When Collins asked if Trump would allow Machado to run Venezuela if she handed over her Nobel Peace Prize, the president didn't rule it out.
"I have to speak to her. I mean, I'm going to have to speak to her," Trump said. "She might be involved in some aspect of it. I will have to speak to her. I think it's very nice that she wants to come in. And that's what I understand."
Trump went on to claim that he had ended "eight wars" (which is heavily disputed) and deserved the Peace Prize more than Machado, who was awarded the prize as the leader of the Venezuelan opposition to now-ousted President Nicolás Maduro. He also repeated praise from Pakistani military leader Asim Munir that he saved "10 million lives."
However, Jonah Goldberg — who is editor-in-chief of conservative news site This Dispatch — called Trump's remarks "pretty embarrassing." He further criticized the Trump administration making the "cynical move" to install Delcy Rodriguez as acting president despite her being Maduro's top deputy, rather than supporting Machado.
"It's not regime change, it's just replacement of the boss," he said. "And so you can make a cynical realpolitik case for that."
"There was no need for the for Trump to humiliate Machado and talk about how she's weak and she can't do it," he continued. "And now she's he's making her grovel and offer her Nobel Prize. That is entirely gratuitous and unnecessary and undermines what's left of any moral authority we have to talk about democracy around the world."
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