To his dismay, President Donald Trump didn’t obtain the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize — that honor went to Venezuelan opposition chief María Corina Machado — and used the second to criticize former President Obama’s previous win.
Whereas on the White Home on Friday, a reporter talked about Obama’s win to Trump, and, true to type, he didn’t hold back.
“He acquired a prize for doing nothing,” Trump mentioned. “Obama acquired a prize… He didn’t even know what he acquired. He acquired elected and so they gave it to Obama for doing completely nothing, however destroying our nation.”
Trump went on to assert that Obama was “not president,” after which added that the “worst president was Sleepy Joe Biden.”
Throughout Friday’s broadcast of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Kimmel aired a montage of clips displaying Trump repeating his criticism of Obama’s win. He then riffed on Trump’s not-so-subtle “campaigning” for the award — and mentioned a current headline from Norway, the place officers had been reportedly bracing for backlash from Trump.
“Norway braces for Trump’s response if he doesn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize,” Kimmel learn. “That’s not a headline from ‘The Onion,’ that’s actual. The federal government of Norway is scared he would possibly punish them — that he would possibly declare them an enemy for not giving him the Nobel Peace Prize.”
When Machado was informed of her win, the Venezuelan politician had an emotional and gracious response.
“Oh my God. Properly, I’ve no phrases,” Machado mentioned in the course of the name with Kristian Berg Harpviken, director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute. “Thanks a lot, however I hope you perceive that this can be a motion — an achievement of the entire society. I’m only one particular person. I definitely don’t deserve this.”
