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It’s time for one of Hollywood’s best stories to come to its natural, perfect conclusion.

After failing to lobby the Nobel Committee for a Peace Prize — something he presumably believes he deserves only because Barack Obama got one — U.S. President Donald Trump invaded Venezuela and, ironically, convinced the elected leader of that country to give him hers.

Yes, really.

María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan resistance leader whose election win over Nicolás Maduro was denied her by Maduro’s autocratic government, earned the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2025. Trump, who had lobbied for one and publicly whined when he didn’t get it, invited Machado to the White House, where she presented him the actual, physical prize, although obviously, she has no authority to grant him the honor.

“Even if the medal or diploma later comes into someone else’s possession, this does not alter who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize,” The Norwegian Nobel Committee wrote in a statement.

The absurdity of Trump accepting someone else’s Nobel Peace Prize, particularly days after launching an unprovoked military conflict, wasn’t lost on the internet. It didn’t take long for social media users to add Trump into dozens of memes, depicting him accepting awards ranging from children’s Little League trophies to Chewbacca’s conspicuously missing medal from the end of Star Wars.

That got me thinking: is there a funnier angle on this that hasn’t already been tackled? Is the meme dead already?

Of course not! We need to get Academy Award-winning actress Halle Berry involved!

In 2002, Berry became the first Black woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her role in Monster’s Ball. Then, in 2005, Berry carried the Oscar with her to the Golden Raspberry Awards, where she celebrated her “win” for the Worst Actress Razzie in person. Berry isn’t the first person to accept her Razzie, but her acceptance speech, combined with the presence of her Oscar, made for an incredible moment.

I can imagine no greater ending to the legendary story of Halle Berry’s Razzie award than if she were to present it to Donald Trump. Back before we really knew what it meant, Berry embraced her “meme” status with this legendary speech, which has gone on to inspire dozens of internet lists and jokey thinkpieces over the years.

I, of course, am not at all jokey and completely taking this seriously.

Imagine, then, if the final line of each of those articles was, “In 2026, Berry presented the Golden Raspberry Award to Donald Trump for his performance as a Nobel Peace Prize recipient,” or something like that? Epic.

I’ve put together a petition to lobby Berry to do this. You can sign it if you want. It’s self-evidently a ridiculous petition, but frankly can’t be any less effective than anything else that’s happened at MoveOn in the last few years. Of course, MoveOn might take it down, as I’m fairly sure I recently saw n LinkedIn that they’re hiring a conservative strategist to try to make the website more right-wing.

One assumes Machado traveled to the White House in hope of getting support for her resistance. If so, it wasn’t worth the trip; in exchange for her Nobel Prize, she was given a Trump-branded “swag bag,” according to multiple reports, because there is absolutely nothing in the world too tacky for the current U.S. regime.

Trump called Machado “a very fine woman,” but stopped short of calling for her to be given the role she earned. Currently, Venezuela is under the rule of Vice-President Delcy Rodríguez, who took over after U.S. forces illegally kidnapped Maduro earlier this month.

Maduro is a dictator who follows in the pseudo-socialist footsteps of Hugo Chávez, who ran the country from 1999 until his death in 2013. The U.S. backed a 2002 attempt to topple Chávez, also by kidnapping him, but in that case, he was taken by Venezuelan dissidents, and he was freed by loyalists within the Venezuelan military.

In the weeks since invading Venezuela and kidnapping Maduro, Trump has turned his attention toward provoking fellow members of NATO by threatening to invade Greenland. And, y’know, accepting his Peace Prize.