President Donald Trump criticized the Norwegian Nobel Committee for not awarding him the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, listing his accomplishments including ending wars and releasing hostages. He made these comments in a Truth Social post. Despite being nominated multiple times, including by former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump did not receive the prize this year. Instead, it was awarded to South African jurist Navi Pillay for her work on international law and human rights, though some critics argue her work displays anti-Israel bias.
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On October 9, 2026, President Trump criticized Norway for awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Navi Pillay instead of him. At a campaign rally in Syracuse, New York, he called Pillay an "unheard-of mystery person" and said her selection was a "disgraceful and embarrassing decision," leaving an "indelible stain on Norway." Trump claimed that the Nobel Peace Prize had been discredited by radical ideologues who were anti-democracy. He reiterated his belief that he deserved multiple Nobel prizes for preventing wars and saving lives, including one for stopping Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. The Israeli foreign ministry also denounced Pillay's award, suggesting that even Joseph Goebbels would approve of such a choice.
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President Donald Trump on Saturday criticized the Norwegian Nobel Committee for not selecting him for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, citing a long list of accomplishments.
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I settled 8 WARS, am close to ending or settling 2 more, got all of the Israeli hostages back, including the final 28, both living and dead, had hundreds of hostages, from countries all over the World, released and sent back home, won a war in Venezuela, and captured the violent dictator who so viciously ran that country, and stopped the number one state sponsor of terror, the Islamic Republic of Iran, from obtaining a Nuclear Weapon — AND MUCH MORE!
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Yet, with all of that I, or the United States of America, did not get the Noble Peace Prize.
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WOW!" Trump wrote in a Saturday morning Truth Social post.
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Trump has long openly pined for the prize, first receiving a nomination in 2018 from Norwegian lawmakers for diplomatic efforts involving North Korea and nuclear disarmament.
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In 2019, he told reporters during a news conference, "I think I'm going to get a Nobel Prize for a lot of things, if they gave it out fairly, which they don't."
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While the Norwegian Nobel Committee does not publicly release a list of nominees for the Peace Prize, Trump has been nominated at least five times, according to the people who nominated him.
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That list includes former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who nominated Trump in 2019, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who nominated him in 2025.
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Despite being nominated again this year by Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and others, Trump was passed over yet again, this time in favor of South African jurist Navi Pillay.
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The 85-year-old Pillay was the first non-White woman appointed to South Africa's high court, and she later served as a judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Court.
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She also served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008 to 2014.
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The Nobel Committee's announcement highlighted her work as the chair of the U.N.'s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Palestinian Territory and Israel.
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Skeptics, however, claimed her work on the commission displayed anti-Israel bias.
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"Navi Pillay is indeed a world leader, an individual at the forefront of the international spread of the poisonous forms of antisemitism that beset the 21st century," Anne Bayefsky, president of Human Rights Voices and director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights, told Fox News Digital's Efrat Lachter.
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The U.N., however, praised her work and career as "steadfast."
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"For decades, she has been a champion of international law and human rights and a steadfast, independent voice of justice amidst some of the most historic international legal cases of our time," U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a statement on Friday.
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Fox News Digital's Efrat Lachter contributed to this report.
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