Jimmy Kimmel has a tempting opportunity for Donald Trump. After Venezuelan opposition leader Mar\u00eda Corina Machado gave her Nobel Peace Prize to the president yesterday, Kimmel attempted to bribe Trump with his choice of any of the awards Kimmel has won over the years.<\/p>\n
\u201cTrump loves awards,\u201d Kimmel said. \u201cGiving him an award seems like the only way to get him to do anything. And with that said, Mr. President, I have an offer I think you\u2019ll find difficult to refuse. If you, and only if, you agree to pull ICE out of Minneapolis and put them back at the borders where they belong, I am prepared to offer you one of the following trophies that I have been honored with over the years.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Kimmel showcased a red velour stand lined with numerous awards, including a Daytime Emmy, a Clio, a Webby, and a Writers Guild Award. \u201cOr,\u201d Kimmel added, \u201cbest of all, I\u2019m willing to hand over my 2015 Soul Train Award for White Person of the Year.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe choice is yours,\u201d Kimmel said. \u201cI will personally deliver any or even all of these to the Oval Office in exchange for leaving the people of Minneapolis alone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kimmel recounted Machado\u2019s visit to Washington, D.C. \u201cTrump said Machado was coming to the White House to pay her regards to our country,\u201d Kimmel said. \u201cWhether she made that payment in cash or check, we don\u2019t know. But after disappearing their president, Trump refused to support Machado as the new leader of Venezuela. And some in his circle believe it\u2019s because she didn\u2019t give him her Nobel Prize.\u201d<\/p>\n
After visiting Trump, Machado told reporters she had given the president her medal. \u201cRarely does a president yank a Nobel Prize off of someone\u2019s neck,\u201d Kimmel noted. \u201cYou know he\u2019s back in the Oval Office sucking on it like a pacifier right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Machado was awarded<\/a> the Nobel Peace Prize in October, a blow to Trump, who had been heavily campaigning to receive the honor. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said Machado was given the prize for \u201cher tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of\u00a0Venezuela\u00a0and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n In the months since, Trump has invaded Venezuela<\/a>, removed its leader Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, and taken over<\/a> the country\u2019s oil reserves. The president has repeatedly told reporters that the South American nation \u2014 home to some of the largest oil reserves on the planet \u2014 \u201cstole our oil.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re going to have a presence in\u00a0Venezuela\u00a0as it pertains to oil,\u201d Trump said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to be taking out a tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n Although Trump missed out on the Nobel Peace Prize, he did receive the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize in December, a completely made-up award given to him by FIFA President Gianni Infantino. Infantino said Trump earned the prize thanks to his \u201cexceptional and extraordinary actions to promote peace and unity around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n Best of Rolling Stone<\/p>\n Sign up for RollingStone’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel has a tempting opportunity for Donald Trump. After Venezuelan opposition leader Mar\u00eda Corina Machado gave her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[969,93,61,60,3484,100838,47943,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-247716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-jimmy-kimmel","13":"tag-maria-corina-machado","14":"tag-nobel-peace-prize","15":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}