Trump again outraged at not winning Nobel Peace Prize

US President Donald Trump expressed his disappointment at not receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, calling the decision "disgraceful and embarrassing". He made these comments during a campaign rally in Syracuse, New York, hours after the Nobel committee awarded this year's prize to Navi Pillay, a former International Criminal Court judge. Trump described Pillay as a "mystery person", saying he had "never heard of" her.

Trump claimed that the Nobel Peace Prize had been "forever discredited" by "radical ideologues" who are "anti-democracy and really enemies of civilization". According to Trump, the prize should have gone to "the United States of America, represented by me as your president". He listed several conflicts he claimed to have helped resolve or prevent, including between North and South Korea, Japan and North Korea, and China and Taiwan, although he provided no evidence.

The Nobel committee's decision was also criticized by Israel's Foreign Ministry, which called it a "grotesque weaponization" of the award to "legitimize anti-Israel hatred and prejudice", according to The Mainichi. Trump, meanwhile, said the decision was "an indelible stain on the country of Norway and those people that made such a disgraceful and embarrassing decision".

Brief written by urgent.news from Malay Mail, Japan Today, The Mainichi, Middle East Eye, South China Morning Post — 5 reports on this story. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.