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President Donald Trump on Saturday criticized the Norwegian Nobel Committee for not selecting him for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, citing a long list of accomplishments.
“I settled 8 WARS, am close to ending or settling 2 more, got all of the Israeli hostages back, including the final 28, both living and dead, had hundreds of hostages, from countries all over the World, released and sent back home, won a war in Venezuela, and captured the violent dictator who so viciously ran that country, and stopped the number one state sponsor of terror, the Islamic Republic of Iran, from obtaining a Nuclear Weapon — AND MUCH MORE! Yet, with all of that I, or the United States of America, did not get the Noble Peace Prize. WOW!” Trump wrote in a Saturday morning Truth Social post.
Trump has long openly pined for the prize, first receiving a nomination in 2018 from Norwegian lawmakers for diplomatic efforts involving North Korea and nuclear disarmament.
In 2019, he told reporters during a news conference, “I think I’m going to get a Nobel Prize for a lot of things, if they gave it out fairly, which they don’t.”
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US President Donald Trump during a dinner with Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, not pictured, in the Blue Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, July 7, 2025. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told President Donald Trump he nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
While the Norwegian Nobel Committee does not publicly release a list of nominees for the Peace Prize, Trump has been nominated at least five times, according to the people who nominated him. That list includes former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who nominated Trump in 2019, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who nominated him in 2025.
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Despite being nominated again this year by Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and others, Trump was passed over yet again, this time in favor of South African jurist Navi Pillay.
The 85-year-old Pillay was the first non-White woman appointed to South Africa’s high court, and she later served as a judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Court.
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Navi Pillay poses in her office at the Palais Wilson, headquarters of the specialized UN agency as she takes up her post on Sept. 1, 2008 in Geneva (Fabrice Coffrini / AFP)
She also served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008 to 2014.
However, her nomination was not without controversy.
The Nobel Committee’s announcement highlighted her work as the chair of the U.N.’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Palestinian Territory and Israel. Skeptics, however, claimed her work on the commission displayed anti-Israel bias.
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Controversial South African judge Navi Pillay, chair of the independent United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel arrives to a press conference in Geneva, on June 18, 2025. (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images.)
“Navi Pillay is indeed a world leader, an individual at the forefront of the international spread of the poisonous forms of antisemitism that beset the 21st century,” Anne Bayefsky, president of Human Rights Voices and director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights, told Digital’s Efrat Lachter.
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The U.N., however, praised her work and career as “steadfast.”
“For decades, she has been a champion of international law and human rights and a steadfast, independent voice of justice amidst some of the most historic international legal cases of our time,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a statement on Friday.
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Digital’s Efrat Lachter contributed to this report.
