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US President Donald Trump criticised this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner on Friday, calling her an unknown liberal who works at the United Nations.
Trump said he had never heard of Navi Pillay, whom the report identified as the laureate. Pillay chaired a UN commission of inquiry that concluded Israel had committed genocide in Gaza, a finding Israel rejected.
Speaking at a Republican campaign rally in Syracuse, New York, ahead of the November 3 midterm elections, Trump described the winner as a “mystery person” and added: “But congratulations anyway.”
Trump again claimed he had “settled eight wars”, citing the conflict between India and Pakistan. He said any one of those conflicts would have been enough to earn the Nobel Peace Prize, adding that no other president had achieved as much.
He argued that the United States, represented by him, should have received the award, and called its omission “an indelible stain on the country of Norway.” He accused a “handful of radical ideologues” of discrediting the prize and described them as anti-democratic and “enemies of civilization”.
“We will not forget Norway,” Trump said, calling the decision another sign that Norway and others were “ripping off our country”.
Trump repeats criticism on Truth Social
Later, Trump wrote on “Truth Social” that he knew nothing about Pillay and claimed that nobody else did either. He said she “very obviously, hates Israel” and again described the Nobel Peace Prize as discredited.
Trump has repeatedly argued that he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize and criticised the fact that he has not received it.
Pillay has served as a judge and president of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, a judge at the International Criminal Court, and the UN high commissioner for human rights from 2008 to 2014.
She chaired a UN inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory from 2021 to 2025. The Nobel Committee said she had played a central role in efforts to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, and that her work had expanded the impact of international law.
