Trump calls the award to Pillay a disgraceful decision and an indelible stain on Norway

At a campaign rally in Syracuse, New York, on the evening of October 9, 2026, Trump said the prize had gone to a liberal person who works at the United Nations whom nobody had heard of, said the United States, represented by him, should have received it, and called the decision disgraceful and embarrassing. He said the prize had been discredited by radical ideologues.

“the Nobel Prize was given out today to a liberal person who works at the United Nations who nobody has ever heard of. ... The United States of America, represented by me as your President should have received the Nobel Peace Prize, but didn't. And this is an indelible stain on the country of Norway and those people that made such a disgraceful and embarrassing decision. The Nobel Peace Prize has been forever discredited by a handful of radical ideologues who are anti-democracy and really enemies of civilization.”