Trump criticises Norway after Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Navi Pillay
US President Donald Trump criticised Norway after the Nobel committee awarded its peace prize to Navi Pillay, calling the decision disgraceful and embarrassing.
Syracuse, United States. US President Donald Trump renewed his complaints on Friday about not receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, saying the decision was disgraceful and embarrassing and had left a stain on Norway, which hosts the Nobel committee.
Criticism of the award
Trump criticised Norway hours after the committee awarded this year’s prize to Navi Pillay, a former International Criminal Court judge who oversaw a UN report that concluded Israel committed genocide in Gaza.
Speaking at a campaign rally in Syracuse, New York, Trump called Pillay a “mystery person”.
“I never heard of the person. Nobody did,” he said.
Trump has expressed disappointment at not winning the prize each year of his presidency.
“This is an indelible stain on the country of Norway and those people that made such a disgraceful and embarrassing decision,” he said.
Claims of preventing conflicts
Trump listed several conflicts he claimed a role in resolving. He also said he had helped prevent wars between North and South Korea, Japan and North Korea, and China and Taiwan, without providing evidence.
“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,” he said.
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