India, Oct. 11 -- US President Donald Trump on Friday said that Nobel Prize winner Maria Corina Machado had called him after winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

The White House had, earlier in the day, said the Nobel Committee had chosen "politics over peace", criticising the decision to grant the peace prize to the Venezuelan Opposition leader.

Trump had in the past repeatedly expressed his desire to win the award, while claiming that he had brokered several international ceasefire deals.

When asked about the Nobel on Friday evening, Trump said that Machado had called him and said that he "deserved" to win.

"The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today, called me, and said, 'I'm accepting this in honor of you, because you real...