'Indelible stain on Norway': Trump fumes at Nobel snub and claims he deserves EIGHT prizes
From the Newshound archive · first published 10 October 2026.
Trump threatened Norway with consequences at a Syracuse rally Friday night, calling the Nobel committee's decision to award the 2026 Peace Prize to former ICC judge Navi Pillay "disgraceful and embarrassing" — and insisting the United States, "represented by me as your president", should have won. The 85-year-old South African jurist had earlier joked from Nuremberg's Palace of Justice that she might "share this prize with Trump", apparently prompting his fury. Trump claimed credit for settling eight wars, demanded eight separate Nobel medals, and warned Iran it would face obliteration if it did not comply with his demands.
Trump branded the Nobel committee "a handful of radical ideologues who are anti-democracy and really enemies of civilisation."
He also reposted a statement from former impeachment lawyer David Schoen calling Pillay an "unabashed hater of America and Israel" who "celebrated terrorists and rewarded Hamas."
This is Trump's second consecutive Nobel snub; last year's winner María Corina Machado gave him her medal, but the committee ruled the honour cannot be transferred.