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Donald Trump railed against Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay, whom he said he'd 'never heard of,' at a rally and in a lengthy Truth Social rant Friday night.
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The President has made no secret of his desire to win a Nobel Prize, to the point where last year's winner Maria Corina Machado gifted him hers.
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However, he made clear he still wants one of his own at his rally in Syracuse, New York, Friday after being taunted by Pillay, a South African jurist and former UN high commissioner for human rights.
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'Today they gave out the Nobel Peace Prize to a person – I never heard of the person.
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Nobody did.
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It's a mystery person,' Trump said of Pillay, calling it a 'disgraceful and embarrassing decision.'
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He referred to Pillay as a 'liberal person who works at the United Nations' and claimed that 'in all of the wars that I've settled, I never spoke to the United Nations.
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'I never heard of this particular person, but congratulations anyway,' he added.
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He then stated his case for America – and himself – winning as many as eight Nobel Peace Prizes, saying: 'We should have had eight Nobel Prizes for each war.'
Trump has long credited himself with stopping eight different wars as President, adding that he'll have stopped two more soon in Iran and Ukraine.
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Donald Trump railed against Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay, whom he said he'd 'never heard of,' at a rally and in a lengthy Truth Social rant Friday night
Pillay (pictured), a South African jurist and former UN high commissioner for human rights, won the award for her efforts to promote peace and international law
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The United States of America, represented by me as your President, should have received the Nobel Peace Prize, but didn't,' he said.
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Trump called the Nobel committee 'a handful of radical ideologues who are anti-democracy and, really, enemies of civilization.'
He added to Norway, where the committee is located: 'We will not forget.'
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Trump continued his tirade after the rally in a long post to his Truth Social media account.
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'I know nothing about this woman, and neither does anyone else!
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In fact, to the best of my knowledge, no one ever heard of her other than the fact that she, very obviously, hates Israel.
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I don’t know what the woman has done,' he said.
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Trump spent most of the post restating his credentials for the award.
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'This is an indelible stain on Norway, one that will never be forgotten.
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The Nobel “Peace” Prize has been forever discredited by a handful of Radical Ideologues who are Anti-Democracy, and Enemies of Civilization!
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Pillay taunted Trump today after she won the award for her efforts to promote peace and international law.
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Trump continued his tirade after the rally in a long post to his Truth Social media account
The South African jurist and former UN high commissioner for human rights joked that she might 'share the prize' with the US President if people kept applauding.
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'If you clap a little bit more I may share this prize with Trump,' Pillay said in a video posted to X by the Secretary General of Amnesty International, which showed Pillay being applauded after the announcement of the award.
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The news will come as a blow to Trump, who heaped extraordinary pressure on the Norwegian committee to give him the award last year.
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Pillay's win is sure to be seen as a high-profile rebuke to Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who have both rejected the findings of a UN commission she led that Israel committed genocide in Gaza.
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Both leaders also have been highly critical of the institutions where Pillay has worked.
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Israel slammed the awarding of the prize to the jurist, saying it legitimized 'anti-Israel hatred' and that Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels must be 'applauding from hell.'
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'Now that the Nobel commission has rewarded the biggest lie of the 21st century, Joseph Goebbels is certainly applauding from hell,' the Israeli foreign ministry posted on X.
Pillay chaired the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel, which was created by the UN-backed Human Rights Council.
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Navi Pillay taunted Donald Trump after she won the award on Friday
The commission a year ago concluded Israel was responsible for genocide in Gaza with a specific intent to destroy Palestinians in the country.
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The commission also found that the Israeli president, prime minister and former defense minister 'have incited the commission of genocide.
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Israel, which has refused to cooperate with the commission since it was established in 2021, has strenuously denied the charges.
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'The Nobel Prize committee has lost its moral compass,' said Israel's prime minister's office on X. 'It has awarded its highest honor to a bigot who built her career around inventing and propagating blood libels against the one and only Jewish state.
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Navi Pillay's proudest achievement was to legitimize a corrupt prosecutor who turned to her fabrications against Israel hoping that by joining her bigoted lynch mob, he would beat a rape charge.
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Karim Khan, who was accused by his own ICC employees of raping and sexually molesting them, used Pillay's lies to build a fake case against Israel.
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'Pillay supplied the lies.
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Khan weaponized them.
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And now the misguided members of the Nobel Committee are honoring the woman who propagated this demonization of the Jews and this travesty of justice.'
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Members of the International Criminal Court (ICC) voted to dismiss Khan as chief prosecutor for alleged sexual misconduct in July.
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He has repeatedly denied all the allegations against him and his lawyer said he would challenge 'the lawfulness and fairness of the decision through all available legal mechanisms.
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The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, South African lawyer and champion of international law Pillay poses with the former President of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Silvia Fernandez de Gurmendi (pictured left) and the Director of the International Nuremberg Principles Academy Christoph Safferling (pictured right)
A peace dove is released from a window of the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway, after the announcement of the 2026 peace prize winner
Pillay's work 'is a source of hope and inspiration to all those who seek to bring about a more peaceful world,' said Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, in announcing her win in Oslo.
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While her work has been global in scope, criticism often has been fiercely local, notably in places like Israel and in apartheid-era South Africa as she and peers took on some of the world's most painful and sensitive legal issues and most vulnerable populations.
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