Overview
- María Corina Machado said she presented her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Trump, who called it a wonderful gesture and shared a photo holding the framed medal.
- The Norwegian Nobel Institute reiterated that a Nobel Prize cannot be transferred or shared, underscoring the handover’s purely symbolic nature.
- Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump’s view is unchanged that Machado lacks sufficient domestic support, as the administration continues to work with interim president Delcy Rodríguez and supports new elections "in due time."
- Trump previously described a call with Rodríguez as fantastic and said discussions covered oil, minerals, trade and national security.
- U.S. actions around Venezuela now include a sixth seizure of a sanctioned oil tanker and a reported $500 million sale of Venezuelan oil, while Machado met bipartisan senators and told supporters they could count on Trump.