Trump Mussolini likes N.Y. Mayor Zohran Mamdani (chemistry, paternal admiration for a young go-getter) but he has a gut dislike for Venezuela’s Maria Machado, the recent Nobel Peace Prize winner who won (by proxy) à landslide victory against Nicholas Maduro in 2024.
From Jonathan Blitzer’s “Who’s Running Venezuela After The Fall of Maduro?”, a 1.5.26 New Yorker article (posted at 9:40 am):

