India, Oct. 11 -- United States President Donald Trump reacted to not winning the Nobel Peace Prize this year and said that the winner, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, called him and said she accepted the prize "in honour" of him.

"The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called me today and said, "I am accepting this in honour of you because you really deserved it", a very nice thing to do," Trump said while speaking to the media on Friday.

"I did not say then give to me though," Trump added cheekily, making the people around burst into a brief laughter. " I think she might have, she was very nice and I have been helping her along the way," he added.

This comes after Machado dedicated her Nobel Peace Prize win to...