Overview
- Oslo’s Nobel Committee said a laureate cannot share or transfer the Peace Prize and that the award cannot be revoked once granted.
- The Nobel Foundation’s statutes place no limits on a laureate’s choice to keep, gift, sell or donate the medal, diploma or prize money.
- Donald Trump accepted María Corina Machado’s medal during a White House meeting on Thursday after she framed the gesture as gratitude.
- Norwegian commentators condemned the handover, with Janne Haaland Matlary calling it unprecedented and disrespectful and Raymond Johansen labeling it harmful to the prize’s reputation.
- The Committee cited past cases of medals changing hands, including Dmitry Muratov’s $103.5 million charity sale and museum donations, and said it does not comment on laureates’ subsequent political actions.