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"I should have won 8 Nobel Peace Prizes": Trump slams Nobel Committee for awarding Navi Pillay

"I should have won 8 Nobel Peace Prizes": Trump slams Nobel Committee for awarding Navi Pillay

Washington DC [US], October 10 (ANI): US President Donald Trump on Saturday criticised the Norwegian Nobel Committee for awarding the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to Indian-origin South African jurist Navi Pillay, claiming that he deserved the honour for his role in resolving conflicts across the world.

In a lengthy post on Truth Social on Friday (local time), Trump questioned Pillay's credentials and accused her of being opposed to Israel, while reiterating his claim that he had settled eight wars and deserved multiple Nobel Peace Prizes.

"This is the woman who received the Nobel Peace Prize over the Great United States of America, whose Representative, ME, settled eight Wars, and many other things. I know nothing about this woman, and neither does anyone else!" Trump said.

He added, "In fact, to the best of my knowledge, no one ever heard of her other than the fact that she, very obviously, hates Israel."

Trump listed eight conflicts that he claimed to have settled, including 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.

"I settled 8 Wars, with letters being sent from every President and Prime Minister from the countries that I helped to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and I'm about to settle, or win, two more, Iran and, Russia/Ukraine," he said.

"Based on my record of PEACE, a record like no one else has ever achieved, I agree! I 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!" Trump added, while citing his other claimed achievements in international diplomacy and security.

He further asserted that he had prevented Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon and claimed to have helped avert conflicts in other regions, including tensions involving North Korea, South Korea, Japan, China and Taiwan.

"In actuality, I should have won 8 Nobel Peace Prizes, not just 1," Trump said, referring to the conflicts he claimed to have resolved.

The US President also criticised the United Nations, saying it had not helped in resolving the conflicts he cited.