Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said she presented President Donald Trump with her 2025 Nobel Peace Prize at their White House meeting Thursday.

Machado, who spoke to reporters following the meeting and a visit to Capitol Hill, also said her conversation with Trump was “excellent” and came away from the meeting believing the president is “committed to … the freedom of all Venezuelans.”

Machado’s visit to the White House comes as the U.S. seeks to take control of the South American nation following the capture of President Nicolás Maduro. The meeting with Trump was seen as a make-or-break moment for the Venezuelan opposition, which has leaned on allies overseas for support as it looks to restore democracy in their homeland.

Machado did not say whether Trump accepted the peace prize, which she won last year for her work promoting democracy and human rights in Venezuela. She dedicated the award to him when she received it last year.

“I presented the president of the United States the medal, the Nobel Peace Prize,” Machado said, without providing more details.

The Nobel committee has said its prizes are not transferable.

Machado said her presentation of the award to Trump echoed 19th century Venezuelan military officer Simón Bolívar’s acceptance of a medal with George Washington’s face from Revolutionary War general Marquis de Lafayette.

Machado also praised Trump’s approach to the meeting.

“I was impressed by how clear he was, how much he knows about the situation in Venezuela, how much he cares about the suffering of the Venezuelan people, and I assured him that the Venezuelan people are united,” she said.

Machado’s hopes of being installed as Venezuela’s new leader have rapidly dwindled, with Trump appearing to accept acting President Delcy Rodríguez, a Maduro ally, in place — at least for now.

Trump called his meeting with Machado a “great honor” and said gifting him the Nobel medal was a “a wonderful gesture of mutual respect” in a social media post Thursday. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters during a briefing after the meeting that his position on Machado had not changed since the operation that ousted Maduro.

Trump said at that time that Machado is a “very nice woman” though he argued she “doesn’t have the support within, or the respect within, the country.”

Leavitt said Trump reached this “realistic assessment” based on the situation in Venezuela, as well as readouts from his advisers and national security team.

Shortly after Maduro’s capture, Trump issued threats to Rodríguez, warning that she could face a fate similar or worse than that of her predecessor. But she has instead emerged as the linchpin in the administration’s strategy in Caracas, as U.S. officials have issued a series of demands to the Venezuelan government.

The administration over time came to believe that Rodríguez would be a better bulwark against the country collapsing than Machado and the opposition. Trump on Wednesday called her a “terrific person.”

Rodríguez has condemned the operation to capture Maduro, but pledged to continue productive cooperation and dialogue with Washington. In a perceived goodwill gesture from Caracas ahead of the Machado meeting, she freed several American prisoners in Venezuelan custody.

The White House has said it’s too early to hold elections and has declined to set a timeline. The opposition is widely seen as the legitimate winner of the July 2024 presidential election.

Trump “is also committed to hopefully seeing elections in Venezuela one day,” Leavitt said Thursday. “But I don’t have an updated timetable for you today.”