Ms. Machado, who led a successful election campaign against Mr. Maduro in 2024, spent much of the 10-minute interview appealing to Mr. Trump, who has declined to throw his support behind the opposition. She even offered him the Nobel Peace Prize she was awarded in October, a prize Mr. Trump has coveted for years.
“Because this is the prize of the Venezuelan people, certainly we want to give it to him and share it with him,” Ms. Machado told the Fox News host Sean Hannity. She said that she had not spoken to Mr. Trump since October, when she dedicated the prize to him.
Mr. Trump has chosen to conditionally back Mr. Maduro’s vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, as interim leader instead of Ms. Machado or Edmundo González, who ran after Ms. Machado was barred from being a candidate. Ms. Machado and Mr. González have said that he is the legitimate president of Venezuela.
“She doesn’t have the support within, or the respect within, the country,” Mr. Trump said of Ms. Machado on Saturday. “She’s a very nice woman, but she doesn’t have the respect.”
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