Trump attacks Norway after Nobel Peace Prize goes to someone else

US President Donald Trump on Friday, October 9, voiced anger at not receiving the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, speaking in Syracuse, New York. The event was meant to be a rally for other Republican candidates, but he spent a long part of his speech airing grievances against the Nobel committee. The source notes that this year Trump started a war with Iran.

Trump said the United States deserved the prize and called the decision an indelible stain on Norway and a disgraceful, embarrassing choice. He claimed the Peace Prize had been forever discredited by a handful of radical ideologues, adding: "We will not forget, Norway."

Claims about wars

The president recited a list of wars he says he has settled. According to the source, some of those were not wars and others remain unsettled. Trump said he was about to settle or win two more, with Iran and in Russia's war in Ukraine, and that both would end quickly. On Iran he said it would be quick one way or the other: either it gives the US everything or it ceases to exist.

Trump also claimed he had stopped Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and had saved more lives than anyone in history. The source points out that US intelligence agencies told Congress in 2025 that Iran had suspended its pursuit of nuclear weapons in 2003.

Who won

Trump said the prize went to a liberal person working at the United Nations whom nobody has heard of. He was referring to Navi Pillay, a South African and former UN human rights chief. She chaired the UN commission that concluded Israel was guilty of genocide in Gaza.