Trump Claims He Deserved 2026 Nobel Prize as He Calls Pillay Win a Stain
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Updated · CNN · Oct 10
Trump Claims He Deserved 2026 Nobel Prize as He Calls Pillay Win a Stain
3 articles · Updated · CNN · Oct 10
Summary
At a Syracuse, New York rally Friday night, Donald Trump said the United States "should have received the Nobel Peace Prize" through him after Navi Pillay won the 2026 award.
Trump called Pillay's selection an "indelible stain on the country of Norway" and said he had never heard of her, even though the prize is awarded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, not the Norwegian government.
His complaint followed a second straight Nobel loss and capped a long self-promotional push built on claims that he had settled more than half a dozen wars, a case the report says was undercut by false or exaggerated assertions.
That campaign had already been damaged by Trump's threats toward Greenland, the Venezuela invasion, and a 7-month war with Iran, all of which further weakened any plausible Peace Prize case.