Trump criticised Norway after South African lawyer and former UNCHR Commissioner Navi Pillay won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, saying his record of settling conflicts should have earned him the award.
"The Nobel Peace Prize has been forever discredited by a handful of radical ideologues who are anti-democracy and really enemies of civilization. And we will not forget, Norway."
President Trump veered far from midterm election politics during a rally in upstate New York on Friday, aiming a bitter diatribe at the Norwegian Nobel Committee for giving the Peace Prize he has long sought to South African jurist Navanethem "Navi"