Says Norway has been left with ‘indelible stain, one that will never be forgotten’ for not awarding him Nobel
US President Donald Trump. Photo: Reuters
United States President Donald Trump said on Saturday that Norway had been left with “an indelible stain, one that will never be forgotten,” for not rewarding him with the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, arguing that he had “settled eight wars” and had deserved the honour.
Trump’s remarks came a day after the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to South Africa’s Navi Pillay, the judge who headed the Rwanda genocide tribunal and who last year presided over a United Nations commission which accused Israel of genocide in Gaza.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump referred to Pillay and said, “I know nothing about this woman, and neither does anyone else! In fact, to the best of my knowledge, no one ever heard of her other than the fact that she, very obviously, hates Israel.”
The US president added, “I don’t know what the woman has done,” arguing again that he had “settled 8 Wars, with letters being sent from every president and prime minister from the countries that I helped to the Norwegian Nobel Committee.”
Trump also stated that he was “about to settle, or win, two more, Iran and Russia/Ukraine.” He said, “They’re both happening at breakneck speed but, forget them, it’s the 8 that I’ve already settled, any one of which, in particular, Pakistan and India, would be far more than necessary to win the Nobel Prize.”
The US president added, “In actuality, I should have won 8 Nobel Peace Prizes, not just 1,” citing eight “wars” that he had “settled”, including between Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, Pakistan and India, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and Israel and Hamas.
“Additionally, I stopped Iran from having a nuclear weapon and blowing up the entire Middle East and, ultimately, far beyond!” Trump said, claiming that he had “saved more lives than anyone in history.”
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Referring to last year’s Nobel winner, Venezuela’s Maria Corina Machado, Trump called her “a truly fine person” and stated that Machado “stated to the Media when she gave me her Nobel Prize of last year, ‘Donald Trump settled many Wars, and deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than any person that has ever received it.'” Trump added, “Based on my record of PEACE, a record like no one else has ever achieved, I agree!”
Further, Trump said he had “got back all of the hostages in Israel, including the final 28, both living and dead, and worked with Hamas to do it — Nobody believed this was possible!” The US president also stated, “I removed the World’s Evil Dictator, Nicolas Maduro, from Venezuela, and am in the process of making Venezuela a rich Democracy.”
“Likewise, with Iran, I stopped them from destroying Israel, the Middle East, and Europe,” he said. He further stated that he was “also preventing, on a constant basis, a War between South Korea and North Korea, and Japan and North Korea.”
Saying that “numerous other hot spots” have not been involved in wars “only because of President Donald J Trump, and the United States of America.”
Moving to cite NATO figures, Trump said he was “responsible for having NATO countries increase spending from 2% to 5% of GDP, creating a stronger alliance and defence,” which he said was “another thing that everybody said was impossible to do.”
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He went further to claim that he had also “negotiated the release, and secured the return, of more than 900 political prisoners from multiple countries in Eastern Europe.” He added, “I have brought 196 hostages HOME from captivity, from all over the World, and did it without having paid a ransom, unlike Biden and Obama who would pay Billions of Dollars.”
Adding to his list of claims, Trump said, “On top of it all, I have created a soon-to-be very prosperous Arctic.”
“Despite all of this, the Nobel Prize was given today to a liberal person who works at the United Nations, who nobody has ever heard of,” he stated. The president added, “In all of the Wars that I have settled, I never spoke to the United Nations — they were of no help.”
Concluding his post, Trump said that “The United States of America, represented by me, as your President, should have received the Nobel Peace Prize, but didn’t.” He further claimed that the award had been “forever discredited by a handful of Radical Ideologues who are Anti-Democracy, and Enemies of Civilisation!”
