Overview
- Venezuelan laureate María Corina Machado presented her 2025 Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Donald Trump during a White House meeting.
- The White House released a photo of Trump holding a framed display of the medal, and an official said the president intended to keep it.
- The Norwegian Nobel Committee and the Nobel Foundation stated that the Peace Prize cannot be shared, transferred, or revoked once awarded.
- The bodies clarified that a laureate may give away, sell, or donate the medal, diploma, or prize money without altering who is recorded as the laureate.
- The gesture drew critical commentary over political signaling, even as Nobel authorities confirmed no change to the official laureate record.