No, Trump Is NOT A Nobel Peace Prize Winner

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado gifts Trump her Nobel Peace Prize medal this January 15th, possibly hoping it means he will back her in her bid to become leader of Venezuela.

A Brief Message to the World from Paul Krugman, retired New York Times columnist and 2008 winner of a Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Posted January 20^th, 2026 on Niagara At Large

A Foreword Note from Doug Draper at Niagara At Large – Renown journalist and Pulitzer Prize winning economist Paul Krugman posted the following few words in the wake of Venezuelan opposition leader

Paul Krugman, 2008 Nobel Prize winner in economic sciences.

Maria Corina Machado giving away her 2026 to Donald Trump this January 15^th. 

Now here is the note from Paul Krugman – 

“It’s a Nobel medal, a symbol of the honor, not the honor itself. Only a vain, insecure fool would imagine that blackmailing someone into handing their medal over adds to his stature.”

To view a BBC report on this, click on the screen immediately below –

U.S. Democratic Congressman for Maryland, Jamie Raskin

A Footnote from Niagara At Large reporter/publisher Doug Draper – During an interview this past January 15^th on an American cable channel, U.S. Democratic Congressman Jamie Raskin said that Trump celebrating Venezuela’s opposition leader giving him her Nobel Peace Prize medal to him is like someone giving him a ring a National Football League football player would receive for winning the Super Bowl then slipping it on one of his fingers and saying, in so many words; ‘I am the greatest football player in NFL history.’

How much more of this crap do we have to put up with? – Doug Draper

For a related post from a great American cartoonist and a disaffected employee of the once-great and now Trump-friendly Washington Post, click on – https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/trump-texts-norways-pm-linking-nobel

Doug Draper –  at work in the 1980s in my role as an environment reporter in The St. Catharines Standard newsroom.

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