美国总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)周四会见了委内瑞拉反对派领导人玛丽亚·科琳娜·马查多(Maria Corina Machado)，后者向他颁发了诺贝尔和平奖奖章。总统称之为“相互尊重的美妙姿态”
特朗普在他的社交媒体平台上写道:“玛丽亚为我所做的工作向我颁发了诺贝尔和平奖。”。他还说，马查多是一个“经历了这么多事情的了不起的女人”，见到她是一种莫大的荣幸。
会后，一名白宫官员向美国广播公司新闻证实，特朗普确实接受了奖章。
白宫没有立即透露闭门会议的更多细节。当被美国广播公司新闻的玛丽·布鲁斯问及这次会议时，特朗普说，会议进行得“很好”。
马查多在离开白宫时告诉记者，她向特朗普颁奖，并反思了两国之间的历史。
“我告诉他这个...听听这个200年前，拉法叶将军给西蒙·玻利瓦尔一枚刻有乔治·华盛顿头像的勋章。从那以后，玻利瓦尔在他的余生中一直保留着这枚奖章，”她告诉记者。
“事实上，当你看到他的肖像时，你可以在那里看到奖章。拉斐特将军把它作为美国、美国人民和委内瑞拉人民在反抗暴政争取自由的斗争中兄弟情谊的象征。在200年的历史中，玻利瓦尔人民向华盛顿的继承人回报了一枚奖章，这次是诺贝尔和平奖奖章，是对他为我们的自由所做的独特贡献的认可。
西蒙·玻利瓦尔在19世纪将委内瑞拉和其他几个拉丁美洲国家从西班牙统治下解放出来。拉斐特侯爵是法国人，在独立战争期间志愿与美国殖民者作战，最终成为乔治·华盛顿最信任的将军之一。
马查多没有提供她与特朗普会面的更多细节。
去年，她因“促进委内瑞拉人民的民主权利”以及推动该国从独裁走向民主而获得诺贝尔和平奖。
2025年10月宣布后不久，马查多与委内瑞拉人民一起将该奖献给了特朗普。
她上周表示，她愿意与特朗普一起颁奖或分享奖项，特朗普曾监督美国抓捕委内瑞拉领导人尼古拉斯·马杜罗的成功行动。马杜罗在纽约面临贩毒指控不服罪.
“我当然希望能够亲自告诉他，我们相信——委内瑞拉人民，因为这是委内瑞拉人民的奖品——当然希望把它给他，并与他分享，”马查多周一告诉福克斯新闻频道东道主肖恩·哈尼蒂。“他的所作所为是历史性的。这是向民主过渡的一大步。”
挪威诺贝尔研究所发布了一份声明上周表示，一旦诺贝尔和平奖被宣布，它“既不能被撤销，分享，也不能转让给他人。一旦宣布了，这个决定就永远有效。”
当本月早些时候被问及马查多是否会成为委内瑞拉的下一任领导人时，特朗普说这对她来说“非常艰难”，因为她“在这个国家得不到支持和尊重。”
特朗普周三表示，他与委内瑞拉代总统德尔西·罗德里格斯(Delcy Rodríguez)进行了一次“很好的交谈”，这是自1月3日委内瑞拉威权领导人尼古拉斯·马杜罗(Nicolas Maduro)被美国扣押以来他们的首次交谈。
“我们打了一个电话，一个很长的电话。我们讨论了很多事情，”特朗普在椭圆形办公室签署法案时说。“我认为我们与委内瑞拉相处得非常好。”
总统上周说的他在社交媒体平台上表示，在委内瑞拉政府释放几名政治犯后，他已经“取消了此前预计的对委内瑞拉的第二波袭击”，但他补充说，“出于安全和安保目的，所有船只都将留在原地。”
自特朗普重返白宫以来，他一直渴望并公开竞选诺贝尔奖。在马查多被宣布为最新的获奖者后，白宫通讯联络主任张致恒抨击了诺贝尔委员会的决定。
“特朗普有一颗人道主义者的心，永远不会有人像他一样，可以凭借自己的意志移山，”张德培在一份声明中说x职位。"诺贝尔委员会证明了他们将政治置于和平之上."
诺贝尔委员会主席桂鑫·瓦特内·弗赖登斯被问及特朗普去年的诺贝尔奖“竞选”，但他否认这对决策过程有任何影响。
“我们每年都会收到成千上万封人们的来信，他们想说，对他们来说，什么能带来和平，”弗莱登斯说。“这个委员会坐在一个挂满所有获奖者肖像的房间里，这个房间充满了勇气和正直。我们的决定完全基于阿尔弗雷德·诺贝尔的工作和意愿。”
Trump accepts Nobel Peace Prize medal from Venezuelan opposition leader Machado
President Donald Trump met Thursday with Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who presented him with her Nobel Peace Prize medal. The president called it a "wonderful gesture of mutual respect."
"María presented me with her Nobel Peace Prize for the work I have done," Trump wrote on his social media platform. He also said that Machado was a "wonderful woman who has been through so much" and that it was a great honor to meet her.
Following the meeting, a White House official confirmed to ABC News that Trump did accept the medal.
Further details about the closed-door meeting were not immediately revealed by the White House. Asked about the meeting by ABC News' Mary Bruce, Trump said it went "great."
Machado told reporters as she was exiting the White House that she presented Trump with her prize and reflected on the history between the two countries.
"I told him this ... Listen to this -- 200 years ago, General Lafayette gave Simon Bolivar a medal with George Washington’s face on it. Bolivar, since then, kept that medal for the rest of his life," she told reporters.
"Actually, when you see his portraits, you can see the medal there. And it was given by General Lafayette as a sign of the brotherhood between the United States, people of United States, and the people of Venezuela in their fight for freedom against tyranny. And 200 years in history, the people of Bolivar are giving back to the heir of Washington, a medal, in this case a medal of a Nobel Peace Prize, and a recognition for his unique commitment with our freedom," she added.
Simon Bolivar liberated Venezuela and several other Latin American countries from Spanish rule in the 1800s. The Marquis de Lafayette was a French national who volunteered to fight with American colonists during the Revolutionary War and eventually rose to be one of George Washington's most trusted generals.
Machado didn't offer any more details about her meeting with Trump.
She won the Nobel Peace Prize last year for her work "promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela" and her push to move the country from dictatorship to democracy.
Machado dedicated the prize to Trump, along with the people of Venezuela, shortly after it was announced in October 2025.
She said last week that she would like to give or share the prize with Trump, who oversaw the successful U.S. operation to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. Maduro faces drug trafficking charges in New York, to which he haspleaded not guilty.
"I certainly would love to be able to personally tell him that we believe -- the Venezuelan people, because this is a prize of the Venezuelan people -- certainly want to, to give it to him and share it with him," Machado told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Monday. "What he has done is historic. It's a huge step towards a democratic transition."
The Norwegian Nobel Institute issued astatementlast week saying that once the Nobel Peace Prize is announced, it "can neither be revoked, shared, nor transferred to others. Once the announcement has been made, the decision stands for all time."
When asked earlier this month whether Machado could become the next leader of Venezuela,Trump saidit would be "very tough for her" because she "doesn't have the support or the respect within the country."
Trump said Wednesday he had a “great conversation” with Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez, their first since authoritarian Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro was seized by the U.S. on Jan. 3.
“We had a call, a long call. We discussed a lot of things,” Trump said during a bill signing in the Oval Office. “And I think we’re getting along very well with Venezuela.”
The presidentsaid last weekon his social media platform that he had "cancelled the previously expected second Wave of Attacks" on Venezuela after the government released several political prisoners, but he added that "all ships will stay in place for safety and security purposes.”
Trump has coveted and openly campaigned for winning the Nobel Prize himself since his return to office. White House Director of Communications Steven Cheung slammed the Nobel Committee for its decision after Machado was announced as the most recent winner.
"[Trump] has the heart of a humanitarian, and there will never be anyone like him who can move mountains with the sheer force of his will," Cheung said in anX post. "The Nobel Committee proved they place politics over peace.”
Jorgen Watne Frydens, the Nobel Committee chair, was asked about Trump's "campaign" for the prize last year but denied it had any impact on the decision-making process.
"We receive thousands and thousands of letters every year of people wanting to say what, for them, leads to peace,"Frydens said. "This committee sits in a room filled with the portraits of all laureates and that room is filled with both courage and integrity. We base only our decision on the work and the will of Alfred Nobel."
