This cannot be revoked
Norwegian lawmakers reacted with shock and dismay over Venezuela opposition leader María Corina Machado’s decision to present U.S. President Donald Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize medal.
“It’s completely unheard of,” Janne Haaland Matlary, a professor of international politics at the University of Oslo and former state secretary in the foreign affairs ministry, told public broadcaster NRK on Friday. She called Machado’s gesture “disrespectful” and “pathetic,” saying it undermined the value of the prize, which the Norwegian Nobel Committee awards annually.
It does rather. It’s just so silly. The object is merely an object; the fact that the award was to Machado and not in any way to Trump makes the object irrelevant.
Only someone as childishly literal-minded as Trump could think the object=the prize.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee and the Norwegian Nobel Institute had previously said: “The facts are clear and well established. Once a Nobel Prize is announced, it cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others. The decision is final and stands for all time.”
Unless Trump.
There is no power on earth more powerish than the power of Trump.
Frankly, I don’t even think she gave him the actual object. Apparently, when you win a Nobel Prize, you can also order replica Nobel medals. They aren’t solid gold, so you could hang one up in your office without causing security hassles, or donate one to a local museum or your alma mater, or something like that. Why on earth would she give him an irreplaceable solid gold medal when everybody knows he can’t tell the difference, just so long as it’s gaudy enough?