Trump veers into Nobel Prize grievances during upstate New York rally on day award is announced

President Donald Trump used a rally in upstate New York on Friday to attack Norway’s Nobel Committee after Navanethem “Navi” Pillay—an advocate for justice and accountability for war crimes and genocide—received the Nobel Peace Prize. Speaking in Syracuse at the Oncenter, Trump called the award “an indelible stain on the country of Norway,” saying he “should have received” the prize. He also argued that the Nobel Peace Prize is now discredited by “radical ideologues,” while dismissing Pillay as an obscure UN figure. The remarks came while Trump faced political pressures tied to ongoing conflict with Iran and voter dissatisfaction over gas prices.