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By that logic, if Michael Jordan gave me one of his NBA Championship Rings, I am now an NBA Champion.

I can get take possession of Reggie Jackson's World Series ring, it does not make me a champion. 

I wonder how many White House coasters and can insulators were in Machado's swag bag?

Whatever respect I might have had for her has now been flushed down the toilet.

She's no leader. She's a weakling. 

"Machado, 58, has sought to have a role in the Venezuelan government and political watchers believe the gesture is intended to soften Trump's posture towards her after he threw his support behind Delcy Rodríguez, the country’s vice president under Maduro."

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I'm sure he'll show her the same respect as he had for Elise Stefanik when it came to that UN Ambassador role (and later gubernatorial run in NY), and MTG (once favored, then ostracized after pushing for the release of the Epstein Files). Two high profile MAGA females, now out of his orbit.

Women are just pawns for him in whatever sordid games he plays.

I like a more directly applicable analogy. If Sir Michael Stanley Whittingham gave his Nobel Prize for chemistry to Trump, it wouldn't mean Trump had invented the lithium-ion battery, or knows anything about chemistry.

Now, if there was an award for snatching a sovereign leader, or undermining NATO, or for bad suggestions of where to inject disinfectant, I think he'd be a real candidate.