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Overview
- After María Corina Machado presented her medal on Jan. 15, the White House released a photo of President Donald Trump holding a framed display, and an official said he intended to keep it.
- In a Jan. 16 statement, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said Nobel statutes place no limits on what a laureate may do with the medal, diploma, or prize money.
- The committee said the laureate of record remains unchanged regardless of who possesses the physical items and reiterated that the Peace Prize decision is final and cannot be revoked.
- The body added that it does not consider it its role to comment on laureates’ day-to-day political activities or the political processes in which they are involved.
- Coverage noted precedents including Knut Hamsun giving his medal to Joseph Goebbels in 1943, Dmitry Muratov auctioning his in 2022, and Kofi Annan’s widow donating his medal and diploma in 2024.