We would use the word ‘steal’ if we were John Bolton, Trump’s former National Security Advisor.
On a CNN interview, Bolton said bluntly:
“Look, it’s always all about Trump.”
“He cares less about Venezuela than he does the prize. And by the way, she can give him the medallion and still keep the prize, if that’s what he wants. Theodore Roosevelt’s Nobel medallion hangs on the wall of the Roosevelt Room in the White House. I’ve always worried Trump would grab that if he can’t get another one. She could probably find a replacement somewhere.”
Anyone who even remotely follows the news knows that Trump is obsessed with that prize and constantly inflates the number of wars he has ended (even between countries that weren’t at war).
Trump has publicly said that he would ‘install’ Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado as head of the country in exchange for her Peace Prize.
“Well, I have to speak to her,” Trump said. “I’m gonna have to speak to her. She might be involved in some aspect of it. I will have to speak to her. I think it’s very nice that she wants to come in. And that’s what I understand the reason is… I can’t think of anybody in history that should get the Nobel Prize more than me. And I don’t want to be bragging, but nobody else settled wars.”
The Norwegian Nobel Institute has reiterated cannot be shared, which you would think would put an end to Trump’s shenanigans, but you never know what he’ll do as he has no respect for laws or institutions.