Trump says he will meet Machado and would accept Nobel Peace Prize from her

President Donald Trump said he will meet with Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado next week — and that he would accept the award she has said she wants to share with him.

“I look forward to saying hello to her,” the president said of the Venezuelan opposition leader during an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity that aired on Jan. 8. Trump added that he heard Machado wants to give him the prize, “and that would be a great honor.”

Trump has openly coveted and publicly lobbied for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Two people close to the White House previously told The Post that Trump was not willing to support Machado because she accepted the Peace Prize. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one of the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive situation.

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