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Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado told reporters she presented the medal for her Nobel Peace Prize to President Donald Trump at a private White House meeting on Thursday, but did not say if he accepted it.

"I think today is a historic day for us Venezuelans," she said after the meeting with Trump, the first time the two have met in-person.

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[–] IronpigsWizard@lemmy.world 87 points 1 day ago (7 children)

SAD

I gotta say, solid contender for most pathetic image of 2026.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 11 hours ago

and all that guady gold decorations.

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s beyond parody, it’s apocalyptically stupid, it can’t be ridiculed because it’s self-ridiculing in a way that’s never been done before. Merely looking at this image makes you dumber. It’s a vortex, a black hole of stupidity and hubris.

[–] IronpigsWizard@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Your words are like poetry.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 23 hours ago

Washington's up there like, "Told you fuckers political parties were a problem!"

[–] Kjell@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

It would be funny if she got a chocolate medal to gift him. Like this if you have not seen those medals with chocolate inside.

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

It STILL hasn't been a year since that fetid piece of pig shit assumed office!

[–] IronpigsWizard@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I've had to remind my friends since roughly late November of this whenever they would gasp and say a variation of, "An there is still three more years of this left".

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

Extremely optimistic of them to think that things will get better in three years!

[–] IronpigsWizard@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Yeah, it feels very disorienting honestly, like we just lived through a year in 2 weeks, heh.