Trump says he should have won Nobel Peace Prize after Navi Pillay award
President Trump has said he should have won the Nobel Peace Prize, criticising the Nobel committee after Navi Pillay was awarded the honour.
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US President Donald Trump has said he should have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, after the honour was given to Navi Pillay.
Pillay, a South African-born jurist and former UN human rights chief, received the prize for her work promoting international law at a time when it is under attack. Speaking at a rally in New York, Trump called the prize committee crooked and said he had never heard of the winner.
Trump said: 'The Nobel Prize was given out today to a liberal person who works at the United Nations who nobody has ever heard of.' He added: 'I've never heard of the person. I know a lot of people. I never heard of this particular person, but congratulations anyway.'
Trump also said he had not spoken to the United Nations during wars he claimed to have settled, saying the body was of no help to him. He argued that the United States, represented by him as president, should have received the Nobel Peace Prize but did not.
In other remarks, Trump described the decision as 'an indelible stain on the country of Norway and those people that made such a disgraceful and embarrassing decision.' He said the Nobel Peace Prize had been 'forever discredited by a handful of radical ideologues who are anti-democracy and really enemies of civilisation.'
He also criticised Norway's Nobel committee for once again failing to give him the prize, and claimed he should have been given eight prizes for stopping eight wars.
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| Reported by all 2 channels | ||
| At a New York rally, Donald Trump criticised the Nobel committee and said the United States should have received the Nobel Peace Prize. | ||
| Donald Trump said he had never heard of Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay. | Reported by Sky News | |
| Navi Pillay, a South African jurist and former UN human rights chief, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for promoting international law. | Reported by ITV | |
Channel Perspectives
What each channel focused on, with key quotes.
Sky News treats the Nobel row as a brief 'meanwhile' item, noting Navi Pillay's background and Trump's rally comments before moving to unrelated UK airport fees. Its tone is factual and compact, with no strong editorial framing beyond quoting Trump's claim that the committee was crooked.
- “the US president has insisted that he should have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize”
- “The Nobel Prize was given out today to a liberal person who works at the United Nations who nobody has ever heard of”
- “The United States of America represented by me as your president should have received the Nobel Peace Prize, but didn't”
ITV1 gives the story a sharper critical edge, leading on Trump's attack on Norway's Nobel committee and carrying his strongest condemnatory lines. It highlights his claim to have deserved eight prizes and his admission that he had never heard of winner Navi Pillai, before switching to unrelated London policing news.
- “President Trump has criticised Norway's Nobel committee for once again failing to give him the Nobel Peace Prize.”
- “This is an indelible stain on the country of Norway and those people that made such a disgraceful and embarrassing decision.”
- “The Nobel Peace Prize has been forever discredited by a handful of radical ideologues who are anti-democracy and really enemies of civilisation.”
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