María Corina Machado presents President Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize, Oval Office, Jan 15, 2026. Image via The White House
Q1. Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado met Thursday with President Trump and presented him with her 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. A White House official said Trump accepted the medal.
Trump has said he deserved the award, and some speculated that Machado could get Trump's nod for president of Venezuela if she gave the award to him. Machado said she gave it to Trump in recognition of his commitment to her country's freedom.
After the meeting, Trump reaffirmed he does not support Machado, preferring the current president, Delcy Rodriguez, who was vice president in the authoritarian regime of ousted president Nicolas Maduro.
Your view? (check all that apply)
Trump has said he deserved the award, and some speculated that Machado could get Trump's nod for president of Venezuela if she gave the award to him. Machado said she gave it to Trump in recognition of his commitment to her country's freedom.
After the meeting, Trump reaffirmed he does not support Machado, preferring the current president, Delcy Rodriguez, who was vice president in the authoritarian regime of ousted president Nicolas Maduro.
Your view? (check all that apply)
(Image: Front, back replicas of Nobel Peace Prize medal on display at Nobel Institute, Oslo, Norway, 2025. Getty )
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Machado was right to give Trump the award
27%
37%
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Wrong
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Trump was right to accept it
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Wrong
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Machado is true 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner
69%
66%
72%
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85%
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66%
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Trump is
12%
16%
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Machado deserved the award more
46%
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Trump did
22%
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Trump will make Machado pres at some point
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Will not
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Not sure
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Don't care
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Q2. President Trump upped his campaign to acquire Greenland, the semi-autonomous territory in Denmark. He argues Denmark can't protect Greenland from Russia and China, so the US needs to acquire it for national security, adding Sunday "One way or the other, we are going to have it."
In polls, 55% of Greenlanders support independence from Denmark, but 85% oppose becoming part of the US, and Denmark has repeatedly said it is not for sale. Many officials in NATO, including in the US, are against a US acquisition since existing agreements allow the US to build as many military bases as it likes (it had 17 during the Cold War, 1 now), and forcing divestiture on a NATO ally would end the alliance.
Trump aides proposed paying each of the 57k Greenland residents $100k to get their support and are drafting what some speculate is a $750b offer to Denmark to buy it. Trump has also hinted at military means of taking the island, and suggested countries that don't get on board with a US acquisition could face higher tariffs.
Earlier this week, European NATO countries moved diplomats and soldiers to Greenland, though ministers declined to say if the soldiers were sent to help the US protect Greenland or to protect it from the US.
Your view?
In polls, 55% of Greenlanders support independence from Denmark, but 85% oppose becoming part of the US, and Denmark has repeatedly said it is not for sale. Many officials in NATO, including in the US, are against a US acquisition since existing agreements allow the US to build as many military bases as it likes (it had 17 during the Cold War, 1 now), and forcing divestiture on a NATO ally would end the alliance.
Trump aides proposed paying each of the 57k Greenland residents $100k to get their support and are drafting what some speculate is a $750b offer to Denmark to buy it. Trump has also hinted at military means of taking the island, and suggested countries that don't get on board with a US acquisition could face higher tariffs.
Earlier this week, European NATO countries moved diplomats and soldiers to Greenland, though ministers declined to say if the soldiers were sent to help the US protect Greenland or to protect it from the US.
Your view?
(Image: European troops in Greenland, Jan 15, 2026. Getty)
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Q3. Last week, President Trump threatened the Iranian regime with military force if they "continued to kill protesters." On Wednesday, that threat seemed to have cooled when he said he had been told that Iran had "no plans to carry out executions of its protesters."
Many observers say the Iranian fundamentalist Muslim regime is truly teetering, the result of an economy hampered by low oil prices, sanctions, and a string of military and intelligence setbacks at the hands of Israel and the US since the 2023 start of the Israel-Hamas War.
However, some are leery of helping topple that regime since there are no guarantees what would replace it, and it would be very costly and dangerous to try to "manage" a population of 93m people.
Would you like to see the regime of Ayatollah Khamenei topple within the next two years, and do you think it will?
Many observers say the Iranian fundamentalist Muslim regime is truly teetering, the result of an economy hampered by low oil prices, sanctions, and a string of military and intelligence setbacks at the hands of Israel and the US since the 2023 start of the Israel-Hamas War.
However, some are leery of helping topple that regime since there are no guarantees what would replace it, and it would be very costly and dangerous to try to "manage" a population of 93m people.
Would you like to see the regime of Ayatollah Khamenei topple within the next two years, and do you think it will?
(Image: Carter welcomes Shah of Iran to US, Nov 1977. Two years later the Shah was toppled. Wikimedia)
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Betting markets ascribe a 45% chance to Ayatollah Khamenei's ouster before September 2026.
December 2024
34% say it's important that the US acquire Greenland, 13% say it will
March 2025
5% say the best way to secure minerals is to acquire/annex territory, 61% say maintain strong relationships
In 1916 the US bought what are now the US Virgin Islands from Denmark in return agreeing "that the United States of America will not object to the Danish Government extending the political and economic interests to the whole of Greenland."
December 2024
34% say it's important that the US acquire Greenland, 13% say it will
March 2025
5% say the best way to secure minerals is to acquire/annex territory, 61% say maintain strong relationships
In 1916 the US bought what are now the US Virgin Islands from Denmark in return agreeing "that the United States of America will not object to the Danish Government extending the political and economic interests to the whole of Greenland."
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