President Donald Trump left viewers stunned during a Thursday night Fox News interview when a discussion about Venezuela and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado veered into an awkward bout of self-congratulation, with Trump claiming he had ended “eight and a quarter” wars. Asked whether he would back Machado as Venezuela’s future leader and told she was willing to give him her Nobel Prize, Trump called the idea “a great honor” before citing unrelated conflicts to pad his peacemaking résumé, a performance that critics blasted as humiliating, unserious, and emblematic of a presidency driven more by ego than diplomacy.
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