Trump slams Nobel Peace Prize choice as ‘disgraceful’

US President Donald Trump has criticized the Nobel Committee's decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Navanethem "Navi" Pillay, a South African jurist and former UN human rights chief. According to The Mainichi, Trump described the decision as an "indelible stain on Norway".

Trump claimed that he should have received the Nobel Peace Prize, stating that he had "settled" eight wars, although some of these claims are disputed. He listed the conflicts he said he had resolved as Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, Pakistan and India, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and Israel and Hamas.

Trump also made comments about Pillay, describing her as a "liberal person" who works at the United Nations and expressing that he knew "nothing about this woman". According to Euronews, Trump wrote that Pillay "very obviously, hates Israel".

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