Trump veers into Nobel Prize grievances during upstate New York rally on day award is announced
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — U.S. President Donald Trump veered far from midterm election politics during a rally in upstate New York on Friday, aiming a bitter diatribe at the Norwegian Nobel Committee for giving the Peace Prize he has long sought to South African jurist Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, a former U.N. human rights chief, for her work on justice and accountability for war crimes and genocide. Trump…
On the day the Nobel Peace Prize was announced, U.S. President Donald Trump shifted his focus away from midterm election politics during a rally in upstate New York. Instead, Trump launched a scathing attack on the Norwegian Nobel Committee for awarding the prestigious honor to South African jurist Navanethem "Navi" Pillay, a former U.N. human rights chief. The president expressed his belief that he should have received the prestigious award instead of Pillay.
Trump claimed that he had ended eight wars, although some of the conflicts he attributes to his resolutions have been disputed. Meanwhile, the ongoing war with Iran, which the president and Israel started, remains unresolved, casting a shadow over his party as they face a disheartened electorate ahead of the midterm elections.
A recent Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll conducted last month indicated that public opinion is mixed on the issue.
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