Donald Trump republished a criticism of the Norwegian Nobel Committee after the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Navi Pillay, considering that the decision “has irreparably shamed its own reputation”. The publication, by a user of Truth Social, argued that the prize should have been delivered to the US President.
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09/10/2026
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O president of the United States, Donald Trump, republished a criticism of the Norwegian Nobel Committee after the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, a jurist and former president of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, considering that “he irreparably embarrassed his own reputation”.
“Today, the Nobel Committee irreparably shamed its own reputation and relegated the once great Nobel Peace Prize by awarding it to Navi Pillay,” Donald Trump’s social network reads in a publication in Truth Social.
In the comment, republished by the US President, it stands out that “Pillay is an assumed enemy of the United States and Israel,” who “celebrated terrorists and rewarded Hamas.”.
“ He conducted a false "investigation", claiming to have concluded that Israel committed genocide and argued that it should be brought to court. It has no credibility in any minimally serious environment and never did anything to promote peace ", shot.
The user, identified as Schoenlaw, stressed that Donald Trump, in turn, “proportioned Abraham’s agreements, which the world considered impossible” and “bringed [Israelites] hostages back home when everything seemed lost.”.
In addition, “he is making every effort to end the war between Russia and Ukraine, to stop Iran – the main sponsor of international terrorism – and he is seeking to rebuild Gaza despite all terrorist efforts to control it.”.
And he shot: “It is precisely this type of initiative that the Nobel Peace Prize was created to recognise and reward!!!”
Navi Pillay wins Nobel Peace: “Capacity to resolve conflicts without force or violence”
It should be noted that the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced this Friday that the Nobel Peace Prize 2026 was awarded to Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, a lawyer and former president of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
The 85-year-old South African Pillay was recognized for its efforts to promote peace and international law, and indicated the president of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Jorgen Watne Frydnes.
Navi Pillay was a High Commissioner of the United Nations for Human Rights between 2008 and 2014 and more recently led a UN commission that investigated human rights violations in Israel and the Palestinian territories.
This committee accused Israel of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip.
“ At a time when the number of wars and conflicts is increasing and when judges and institutions of international law are under political attack, the Nobel Committee wishes to remember that the ability to resolve conflicts without force or violence depends on the rule of international law,” the chairman of the committee said in the announcement of the prize.
“An international legal system in which war criminals are held accountable and abuse victims see justice done is an essential condition for a peaceful world,” he added.
Pillay grew up in South Africa under the racial segregation regime of apartheid and became one of the first women of Indian descent to practice law in the country, standing out in defense of anti-apartheid activists.
As a judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, he helped establish the international legal framework that recognizes sexual rape as an act of genocide and war crime.
The winner of 2026 succeeds Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who received the prize in 2025 for her tireless efforts to promote human rights and freedoms in Venezuela and to foster a “just and peaceful” transition from the “dictatorship to democracy”.