US president Donald Trump during a cabinet meeting at the White House on Thursday. Photographer: Samuel Corum/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images
In awarding the Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado of Venezuela, the Norwegian Nobel Committee recognised “a woman who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness.”
It’s hard to predict how that will go down with a US president who famously prefers to keep the spotlight on himself.
To Donald Trump, the announcement that the Nobel Peace Prize has once again been awarded to someone else risks registering as the latest ignominy in a lifetime of rejection by elites.
The question is how he might register that indignation.
An early indication came from White House director of communications Steven Cheung, who posted on X that the committee “proved they place politics over peace.”
Mr
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