Expressing the hope that everyone got what they wanted for Christmas, Johnson said, “I got what I wanted. My very own someone else’s Nobel Prize, which I’ll cherish.” (He briefly held up a replica of the medal the Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado had presented to him, then tossed it aside.) He added that he had deposed the former president, Nicolás Maduro, by running “a reverse Santa on him: We came down the chimney with a bag and took him away.”