The list of winners of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2025 was announced. After reading the list, the Trump administration was busy, and its eyes were black.
On October 10, at 17 p.m., the Norwegian Nobel Committee decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 to Maria Corinna Machado in recognition of her “struggle to the “justice and peace” transition from “dictature to democracy.”
Maria is the leader of the Venezuelan opposition and has been engaged in political struggle in Venezuela for a long time. She is an industrial engineer and obtained a degree in finance from the Higher College.
She entered politics in 2002. From 2011 to 2014, she served as a member of the Venezuelan National Assembly. In 2012, she became the Venezuelan presidential candidate, but lost to Henrik Capriles in the opposition primary election.
In 2013, she co-founded the Liberal Party of Venezuela and served as the party’s national coordinator.
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In 2018, she was listed on the BBC's 100 Women's List. In 2024, she won the primary election among Venezuelan opposition presidential candidates, but was subsequently removed from office for 15 years by the Venezuelan government.
But this man is politically complex, and is typically a right-wing economic politician, advocating free markets, privatization and reducing state intervention.
She is also a middle-leftist on social issues, supporting the legalization of abortion in rape cases and being open to same-sex marriage. She also advocates legalization of marijuana, emphasizes political and religious separation, opposes extremist democracy, and emphasizes democracy and inclusion.
In terms of party attributes, she is centre-right. The Liberal Party is regarded as the centre-right, but her opponents regard it as the extreme right. Therefore, from these aspects, we cannot affirm or deny Maria in one sentence. But the fact that she won the Nobel Peace Prize must have made some people very angry.
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CNN previously said Trump was very eager to win the award and hoped he would be the fifth U.S. president to receive the Nobel Peace Prize after Wilson, Roosevelt, Carter and Obama.
Trump himself also spoke at the United Nations General Assembly on September 23 that everyone said I should win the Nobel Peace Prize for each of these achievements.
The British newspaper The Guardian published on October 9th that Trump's possibility of winning the award is extremely low, and Norwegian politicians are preparing for the potential consequences. Norway believes that if Trump doesn't get the award, he is expected to be angry and point the finger at Norway.
Some analysts speculate that after the defense is broken, Trump may retaliate such as increasing taxes, demanding increased military spending, and even directly declaring Norway a "hostile country."
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The Guardian’s analysis makes sense.To know that Trump has more than once publicly mentioned that he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for his ability to receive this “honour.”
Even the White House and Trump's aides are flattering Trump and calling on Norway to award Trump the Peace Prize. After the end of the India-Pakistan conflict, the Pakistani government was the first to announce Trump as a candidate for the Peace Prize, and then some countries imitated it.
After the ceasefire between Cambodia and Thailand, Cambodia nominated Trump as a candidate for the Peace Prize; after the ceasefire between Israel and Iraq, Israel nominated Trump as a candidate for the Peace Prize.
Zelensky said that if Trump provided Ukraine with a "Tax" missile, Ukraine would nominate him for the Peace Prize candidate. Even a "political speculator" such as Riyadh won the Nobel Peace Prize, claiming that as long as he can urge mainland China not to act on Taiwan, he will surely get the award.
During the last 48 hours of the Nobel Peace Prize's unveiling, Israel and Hamas urgently reached a ceasefire agreement and named the ceasefire document as "Steps to Implement President Trump's Plan to Comprehensively End the War in Gaza."
As a result, after the Nobel Prize Committee announced the list today, the Trump administration was directly "black-eyed". Trump has done so much just for the Nobel Peace Prize that he is yearning for. As a result, the Nobel Prize Committee would rather award this prize to a person who doesn't have so much influence internationally than to Trump.
Now the Trump administration is a bull and blowing, and so many countries have nominated Trump. But in the end, Trump just didn't win the prize, which really embarrassed the Trump administration.
How will the Trump administration respond to this "political crisis" next? Will Norway be retaliated by Trump? Let's keep an eye on this matter.