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President Donald Trump expressed frustration after the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to former ICC judge Navi Pillay instead of him. Speaking at a rally and posting on social media, Trump criticized Norway and the committee's decision. Outlets across the political spectrum reported on his remarks and his list of perceived accomplishments.
Outlets across the political spectrum agree that President Trump complained about not receiving the Nobel Peace Prize and criticized the choice of Navi Pillay.
Left-leaning outlets like The Guardian and The New York Times focused heavily on Trump fuming over the snub, mentioning his criticisms of Norway and the context of foreign policy actions. Center outlets like The Hill and Bloomberg reported on his assertions that he should have won and his warnings to Norway. Right-leaning outlets like Fox News and Breitbart News emphasized his list of accomplishments and framed the Nobel committee's choice controversially regarding Israel.
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Trump: I ‘should have won’ Nobel Peace Prize, award is ‘forever discredited’
President Trump argued Friday that he should have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize over this year’s Nobel laureate, former International Criminal Court (ICC) judge Navi Pillay. The president, who has long coveted the honor, was gifted the award by last year’s recipient, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado. In a late evening Truth Social…
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Source context: President Trump argued Friday that he should have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize over this year’s Nobel laureate, former International Criminal Court (ICC) judge Navi Pillay. The president, who has long coveted the honor, was gifted the award by last year’s recipient, Venezue…
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President complains about not winning prize in year he started war with Iran and says: ‘We will not forget, Norway’Donald Trump complained Friday about not winning the Nobel peace prize for 2026, a year in which he started a war with Iran.At what was supposed to be a rally for other Republican candidates in Syracuse, New York, the US president devoted a…
Stanford University's Robert E. Hall and Columbia University's Michael Woodford won the Nobel Prize in economics for research on how policymakers can stabilize economies, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday.Why it matters: Their work helped shape how central banks set interest rates and communicate policy. The win comes as those…
Trump mourns losing the Nobel, criticizes winner Navi Pillay, a South African lawyer for her work with human rights
Speaking at a campaign rally in Syracuse, New York, President Donald Trump said that the Norwegian Nobel Committee choosing not to award him with the peace prize leaves “an indelible stain on the country of Norway.”
The president described the decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Navi Pillay as “disgraceful and embarrassing” and said he would “not forget.”
The president took to social media on Friday and Saturday to criticize the choice of Navi Pillay and disparage the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
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President Trump argued Friday that he should have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize over this year’s Nobel laureate, former International Criminal Court (ICC) judge Navi Pillay. The president, who has long coveted the honor, was gifted the award by last year’s recipient, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado. In a late evening Truth Social…
Two U.S. economists, Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford, were awarded the prize for their work on the household and business foundations of economic stability.
Navi Pillay says the Trump administrations' sweeping penalties on the international tribunal were "unheard of".
President Donald Trump fumed at the Norwegian committee that awards the Nobel Peace Prize, saying that the fact it didn’t go to him “is just another sign of how Norway and all these others are ripping off our country.”
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Supply-side activists are rejoicing in the award of a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics to Stanford’s Robert Hall, the author of the flat tax that would replace the existing tax system with a single flat rate. “It surely adds credibility to the flat tax, that even those people would think it’s good,” Arthur Laffer, a…
A Scandinavian nation was put on notice Friday by President Donald Trump after another prize snub in favor of a genocide-claiming jurist who “very obviously, hates Israel.”…
Trump sounded off on Truth Social after the Norwegian Nobel Committee passed him over for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize in favor of Navi Pillay.
President Trump continued to complain Saturday about being slighted by the Nobel committee which denied him a long-sought Nobel Peace Prize.
From Hoover's post today (and see also our colleague John Cochrane's post about Hall's work): Robert E. Hall, the Robert…
American economists Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford win the 2026 Nobel economics prize for research on managing economic shocks and inflation.
President Donald Trump lamented in a social media post that he and the United States were not awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.
