‘Eight Nobel prizes’: Trump slams Norway, says peace award has been ‘discredited’
Addressing a rally in Syracuse, Trump also claimed to have saved 50 million lives by preventing India and Pakistan from going to war. Pillay, 85, is a South African-born jurist and former UN human rights chief who won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work promoting international law. She served as an International Criminal Court (ICC) judge from 2003 to 2008 and later chaired a UN commission that concluded Israel had committed genocide in Gaza, a finding strongly rejected by Israel. Obama won the award in 2009, his first year in office.
And this is an indelible stain on the country of Norway, and those people that made such a disgraceful and embarrassing decision,” Trump said. “We will not forget Norway, that you didn’t give this prize with the greatest record in history — eight wars, we should have had 8 Nobel Prizes for each war— but that you didn’t give the Nobel Prize for Peace to the United States of America,” he added. “Additionally, I stopped Iran from having a nuclear weapon and blowing up the entire Middle East and ultimately far beyond the Middle East, including Europe, perhaps the US and I saved more lives than anyone in history,” Trump said. The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to South African former UN human rights chief Navi Pillay, whom Trump dismissed as someone “nobody ever heard of”. I’ve never heard of the person, but congratulations anyway,” Trump said. Trump has repeatedly criticised Obama’s win, arguing that he “got a prize for doing nothing”. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the sanctions were intended to prevent the ICC from prosecuting American citizens.
“The United States of America, represented by me as your president, should have received the Nobel peace prize, but didn’t. “The Nobel peace prize has been forever discredited by a handful of radical ideologues who are anti-democracy and really enemies of civilisation. We will not forget, Norway, that you didn’t give this prize,” the US President added. Trump then listed the conflicts he claimed to have resolved, adding that he was working to end two more, involving Iran and the Russia-Ukraine war. Four US presidents have received the Nobel Peace Prize: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama. The move marks a further escalation in the administration’s campaign against the Hague-based court. You use AI every day. Now get your AI Quotient. Take the AIQ test.
US President Donald Trump on Friday criticised Norway for not awarding him the Nobel Peace Prize, claiming he deserved the honour eight times for the wars he said he had settled. “The Nobel Prize was given out today (Friday) to a liberal person who works at the United Nations, who nobody has ever heard of. Meanwhile, the Donald Trump administration imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday, hours after former court judge Navi Pillay won the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to promote international law.