Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay roasts Trump after winning award: ‘If you clap more I might share it with him’
Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay jokingly remarked that she might share her award with Donald Trump if the audience clapped more. The comment follows Trump's public desire to win the prize and his claims of settling multiple wars.
Why it matters
The incident highlights the ongoing tension between international institutions and the Trump administration's foreign policy rhetoric.
Trump has long coveted the prize and heaped pressure on the committee to award it to him
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Former UN human rights chief Navi Pillay has taken a swipe at Donald Trump after winning the Nobel Peace Prize 2026, joking that she would offer to share it with him.
The South African judge and legal expert was awarded the prize for being “instrumental in ensuring war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide are prosecuted”, according to Nobel committee chair Jørgen Watne Frydnes.
He said it came at a time when ”the system of international law is under tremendous pressure, and its institutions are under attack”.
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