'We 'will not forget', Norway': Trump calls Nobel Peace Prize snub an 'indelible stain' and claims he deserved EIGHT medals
From the Newshound archive · first published 10 October 2026.
Trump erupted at a Syracuse, New York rally after the Nobel Peace Prize went to Navi Pillay — a South African jurist who previously led the UN's human rights office and served as an ICC judge — denouncing the decision as "disgraceful and embarrassing." He told the crowd that the United States — "represented by me as your president" — deserved the prize, and warned Norway it had created an "indelible stain" his administration "will not forget." Trump said he had ended eight wars and maintained he had earned a Nobel medal for every one of them. He also issued a stark warning about Iran, saying it would be resolved "very quick one way or the other: that they give us everything or they don't exist any longer."
Trump dismissed Pillay as a "mystery person" and "liberal" UN figure he had "never heard of."
He reposted a statement from his former impeachment lawyer David Schoen calling Pillay an "unabashed hater of America and Israel" who "celebrated terrorists and rewarded Hamas."
Israel's foreign ministry was equally scathing, saying the award was "the grotesque weaponization of an award to legitimize anti-Israel hatred."