The Nobel Foundation wrote on social media Sunday that the Nobel Peace Prize can't be passed on to others after Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado gave hers to President Trump at the White House on Thursday.

"One of the core missions of the Nobel Foundation is to safeguard the dignity of the Nobel Prizes and their administration. The Foundation upholds Alfred Nobel’s will and its stipulations," the foundation wrote on X. 

"It states that the prizes shall be awarded to those who 'have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind,' and it specifies who has the right to award each respective prize. A prize can therefore not, even symbolically, be passed on or further distributed," the foundation also said.