Navi Pillay Jokes About Sharing Nobel Prize With Trump
- On Friday, President Donald Trump criticized the Norwegian Nobel Committee during a rally in Syracuse, New York, calling the decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to South African jurist Navi Pillay "disgraceful and embarrassing."
- The Norwegian Nobel Committee stated Pillay received the prize for efforts to "promote peace and international law," citing her service on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, which prosecuted those responsible for the 1994 genocide.
- Trump reiterated claims he resolved eight conflicts and saved "nearly 50 million lives," arguing the United States should have received the prize and calling the decision "an indelible stain" on Norway.
- The award comes amid escalating tensions between the Trump administration and international legal institutions, as Pillay chaired a UN commission concluding Israel committed genocide in Gaza, a finding the Israeli government rejected.
- Historically, four U.S. Presidents—Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter, and Barack Obama—have received the Nobel Peace Prize, with the 2026 award scheduled for presentation in Oslo on December 10.
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The President of the United States said this Friday that Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay is an unknown and ranked the Nobel Committee as corrupt.
US President Donald Trump on Friday criticised the Nobel Peace Prize selection, saying the decision leaves an "indelible stain" on Norway and insisting the award should have gone to him.
"Today they gave the Nobel Peace Prize to a person I've never heard of," he says in reference to Navi Pillay.
As last year, Donald Trump was indignant on Friday for not receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, saying that he had never heard of the winner announced earlier in the day, Navi Pillay. ...
Donald Trump sharply criticizes the award of the Nobel Peace Prize. The prize winner had reacted to it with a slap on her side.
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