India, Oct. 12 -- US President Donald Trump on Friday reacted to not winning the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, claiming that Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, this year's laureate, told him she accepted the award "in honour" of him.

"The person who got the Nobel Prize called me today and said, 'I am accepting this in honour of you because you really deserved it,'" Trump told reporters at the White House.

"I didn't say, 'Give it to me,' though. I think she might have... I've been helping her along the way. They needed a lot of help in Venezuela during the disaster. I'm happy because I saved millions of lives," he said.

Machado, a long-time advocate for democratic reform and human rights in Venezuela, was awarded the 2025 Nobe...