Donald Trump attacked Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay during a rally and in an extended Truth Social post on Friday night, saying he had “never heard of” her.

The President has made little secret of his ambition to receive a Nobel Peace Prize. Last year’s winner, Maria Corina Machado, even gave Trump her own award.

But Trump made clear at his rally in Syracuse, New York, that he still wants a Nobel Prize of his own. His remarks came after Pillay, a South African jurist and former UN high commissioner for human rights, appeared to mock him.

“Today they gave out the Nobel Peace Prize to a person – I never heard of the person. Nobody did. It’s a mystery person,” Trump said of Pillay, describing the decision as “disgraceful and embarrassing.”

He characterized Pillay as a “liberal person who works at the United Nations” and claimed that the organization had played no role in the conflicts he said he had helped resolve. “In all of the wars that I’ve settled, I never spoke to the United Nations. They were of no help to me,” he said.

“I never heard of this particular person, but congratulations anyway,” Trump added.

He then argued that the United States — and he personally — deserved multiple Nobel Peace Prizes. “We should have had eight Nobel Prizes for each war,” Trump said.

Trump has repeatedly credited himself with helping end eight separate wars during his presidency. He has also said that two more conflicts, in Iran and Ukraine, could soon be resolved.

“The United States of America, represented by me as your President, should have received the Nobel Peace Prize, but didn’t,” Trump said.

He condemned the Nobel committee as “a handful of radical ideologues who are anti-democracy and, really, enemies of civilization.”

Addressing Norway, where the committee is based, Trump added: “We will not forget.”

Trump continued criticizing the Nobel decision after leaving the rally, publishing a lengthy statement on his Truth Social account.

“I know nothing about this woman, and neither does anyone else! In fact, to the best of my knowledge, no one ever heard of her other than the fact that she, very obviously, hates Israel. I don’t know what the woman has done,” he wrote.

Much of Trump’s post repeated his argument that his own record made him deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize.

“This is an indelible stain on Norway, one that will never be forgotten. The Nobel ‘Peace’ Prize has been forever discredited by a handful of Radical Ideologues who are Anti-Democracy, and Enemies of Civilization!” he wrote.

Pillay had taunted Trump earlier in the day after receiving the award for her efforts to advance peace and international law.

The South African jurist and former UN high commissioner for human rights joked that she might “share the prize” with the US President if the audience continued applauding.

‘If you clap a little bit more I may share this prize with Trump,’ Pillay said in a video posted to X by the Secretary General of Amnesty International, which showed Pillay being applauded after the announcement of the award. 

The news will come as a blow to Trump, who heaped extraordinary pressure on the Norwegian committee to give him the award last year.

Pillay’s win is sure to be seen as a high-profile rebuke to Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who have both rejected the findings of a UN commission she led that Israel committed genocide in Gaza. 

Both leaders also have been highly critical of the institutions where Pillay has worked.

Israel slammed the awarding of the prize to the jurist, saying it legitimized ‘anti-Israel hatred’ and that Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels must be ‘applauding from hell.’

‘Now that the Nobel commission has rewarded the biggest lie of the 21st century, Joseph Goebbels is certainly applauding from hell,’ the Israeli foreign ministry posted on X.

Pillay chaired the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel, which was created by the UN-backed Human Rights Council. 

The commission a year ago concluded Israel was responsible for genocide in Gaza with a specific intent to destroy Palestinians in the country.

The commission also found that the Israeli president, prime minister and former defense minister ‘have incited the commission of genocide.’

Israel, which has refused to cooperate with the commission since it was established in 2021, has strenuously denied the charges.

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‘The Nobel Prize committee has lost its moral compass,’ said Israel’s prime minister’s office on X. ‘It has awarded its highest honor to a bigot who built her career around inventing and propagating blood libels against the one and only Jewish state. 

‘Navi Pillay’s proudest achievement was to legitimize a corrupt prosecutor who turned to her fabrications against Israel hoping that by joining her bigoted lynch mob, he would beat a rape charge. Karim Khan, who was accused by his own ICC employees of raping and sexually molesting them, used Pillay’s lies to build a fake case against Israel. 

‘Pillay supplied the lies. Khan weaponized them. And now the misguided members of the Nobel Committee are honoring the woman who propagated this demonization of the Jews and this travesty of justice.’

Members of the International Criminal Court (ICC) voted to dismiss Khan as chief prosecutor for alleged sexual misconduct in July. 

He has repeatedly denied all the allegations against him and his lawyer said he would challenge ‘the lawfulness and fairness of the decision through all available legal mechanisms.’

Pillay’s work ‘is a source of hope and inspiration to all those who seek to bring about a more peaceful world,’ said Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, in announcing her win in Oslo. 

While her work has been global in scope, criticism often has been fiercely local, notably in places like Israel and in apartheid-era South Africa as she and peers took on some of the world’s most painful and sensitive legal issues and most vulnerable populations.

Pillay, 85, received the news while attending the Nuremberg Forum, a gathering to discuss international law in Nuremberg, Germany, the location of the trials of Nazi war criminals that helped lay the foundations of international law.

‘Firstly, at this venue, your applause means a great deal to me,’ she said to a standing ovation. ‘You know, you don’t want to receive an award, prize or anything unless the public agrees that you deserve this.’

And joking, she added: ‘But being a lawyer and a judge, I still want to verify this information.’

Winning a Nobel Peace Prize has long been something of an unfulfilled dream for Trump.

Pakistan announced it had nominated him for the prize once again this year for playing a ‘historic role in advancing peace in South Asia.’   

Pillay has repeatedly rejected accusations from critics who accused her of anti-Semitism or allegedly turning a blind eye to the Hamas attacks in Israel.

In an interview with The Associated Press last year, she recalled how she worked closely with some Jewish lawyers in the fight against apartheid in her native South Africa and was invited to Israel as the UN rights chief from 2008 to 2014.

Pillay’s win brings renewed attention to Trump’s ongoing feud with the ICC. 

The Trump administration already has sanctioned 13 of the ICC’s staff members, among them key prosecutors and nine judges including the court’s Japanese President Tomoko Akane.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has launched what he called a ‘sweeping campaign to dismantle the threat posed by the International Criminal Court.’

In his speech to the United Nations General Assembly last month, Trump called the court an ‘out of control institution’ and an ‘anti-American tribunal with no jurisdiction’ over the US as he urged member states to quit the ‘rogue institution immediately.’

There are fears the court as a whole could be sanctioned, a move that could seriously hamper its ability to mete out justice.

The Norwegian committee said it sought to strengthen international law at a time of conflict.

‘At a time when the number of wars and conflicts is rising, and when judges and institutions of international law are under political attack, the Nobel Committee wishes to issue a reminder that the ability to resolve conflicts without force or violence is dependent on the international rule of law,’ the committee wrote in a news release.

Pillay is currently serving as an ad hoc judge at the International Court of Justice, the highest court of the UN, in the ongoing genocide case against Myanmar.

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won the prize in 2025 for her struggle to achieve a democratic transition in the South American nation, winning recognition as a woman ‘who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness.’

She had not been seen in public since January of that year, when she led demonstrations against then-president Nicolas Maduro, who had been re-elected, despite widely being considered a dictator.

Machado dedicated the prize to Trump for ‘his decisive support of our cause’ and gave him her Nobel medal shortly after Maduro was ousted in January of this year. 

The gesture was largely symbolic, however, as the Nobel Committee has stated the honor itself cannot be transferred.

Kamala Harris is reportedly facing resistance as she weighs another presidential campaign in 2028—including from her husband, Doug Emhoff, who would prefer that she not seek the White House again.

Emhoff has privately told people that he would rather see Harris stay out of the 2028 race, according to a Friday report by the Wall Street Journal.

Still, people close to the former second gentleman expect him to support Harris if she ultimately decides to run, the newspaper reported.

Harris’ reservations extend well beyond her own household.

Several donors who remain uncertain about her political plans have told Harris directly that a 2028 White House bid would be “a long shot.”

The former vice president is attempting to move forward after a disappointing 2024 election defeat to President Trump.

Harris lost the popular vote, Electoral College and every battleground state to Trump, despite raising an eye-catching $1.5 billion for her unsuccessful campaign.

Even so, Harris continues to lead the hypothetical Democratic field by double digits in nearly every recent 2028 poll.

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Harris says she has not decided whether to make a third run for president, although her recent activities suggest she may be preparing for another campaign.

With the midterm elections approaching, Harris has appeared at Democratic fundraisers, including private gatherings for Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate David Crowley and Nevada gubernatorial candidate Aaron Ford, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Last week, she joined a Democratic National Committee call with more than 2,000 volunteers and encouraged them to support get-out-the-vote efforts in 12 states.

“I have not decided if I’m going to run again,” Harris said at a NAACP event in Michigan last month. “I do sincerely believe ’28 won’t matter if we don’t get through ’26.”

Some longtime Harris allies who have worked closely with her remain “skeptical” that she will seek the presidency again.

Earlier this year, Harris and Emhoff purchased an $8 million mansion in Malibu.

Emhoff has also joined Los Angeles law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP as a partner.

Harris’ office and Emhoff did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Post.

A lawsuit brought by the family of a victim of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has become a focal point in the wider debate over the agency’s future in Gaza.

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, an Israeli civil rights attorney and president of the Shurat HaDin Law Center, told News Media that she filed the case in Jerusalem District Court on behalf of the family of 21-year-old Yonatan Samerano. He was killed outside Kibbutz Be’eri after escaping the Nova music festival on Oct. 7, 2023. His remains were returned to his family after 625 days in captivity, during the final phase of hostage releases, Darshan-Leitner said.

Darshan-Leitner alleges that after terrorists shot Samerano, UNRWA workers collected his body, placed it in an agency vehicle and transported it to Gaza. “Although the kidnapping was by UNRWA’s workers, UNRWA never revealed the place of the body, never cooperated with Israeli authorities to tell them where Yonatan Samerano was held and never admitted that it was done by its workers,” she said. “And therefore we decided to sue UNRWA on behalf of the family.”

The case faces a major legal hurdle: UNRWA’s diplomatic immunity under the U.N. Charter and the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations. Darshan-Leitner argued that the charter “specifically prohibits any act of violence, let alone terrorism.” Because she alleges UNRWA aided and abetted terrorist organizations and took part in terrorism, she said, the agency should no longer be protected by treaty-based immunity.

The Israeli Knesset passed legislation in December removing UNRWA’s diplomatic immunity and clearing the way for the Israeli government to expropriate agency properties in East Jerusalem.

Citing UNRWA’s loss of immunity, the Samerano family is seeking NIS 24 million—nearly $8 million—in punitive damages under Israel’s Compensation for Victims of Terrorism Law. Darshan-Leitner said that when the deadline for UNRWA to submit its defense passed last week, the agency requested a 45-day extension.

UNRWA did not respond to requests for comment on its immunity or on the litigation filed by Samerano’s family.

Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, told News Media that Guterres has repeatedly said the Knesset law and its amendments conflict with the legal framework governing UNRWA. “The source of UNRWA’s immunities is vested in the Charter of the United Nations and the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations, which remain applicable,” Dujarric said.

Guterres has also made clear that any UNRWA personnel shown to have participated in the Oct. 7 attack must face accountability, Dujarric said. “Whenever we have been given information by the Israeli government on such individuals, we have acted,” he added.

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UNRWA’s place in Gaza’s future has faced growing scrutiny in recent months. The USAID Office of Inspector General and NGO Watch have continued to report evidence of Hamas infiltration within the agency, while Finland, Sweden and the United States have fully halted funding to UNRWA.

The Board of Peace, which is responsible for Gaza’s reconstruction, has said UNRWA will not have a role in the Strip’s future.

However, The Associated Press reported on Sept. 25 that members of the Board of Peace may be more willing to work with the U.N. agency than public statements have suggested. The report quoted a Board of Peace official who confirmed that members had met with UNRWA officials several times.

The Board of Peace shot back on X, saying that its “policy as it relates to UNRWA’s involvement in Gaza is unchanged. We will only work with trusted partners who will deliver for the people of Gaza and contribute to a deradicalized Strip. UNRWA fails on those litmus tests.”

A U.S. official told News Media that evidence continues to show UNRWA has become “a vehicle for instability, violence and radicalization” and should have no role in Gaza’s future humanitarian operations. The official said capable service providers already operating in Gaza could deliver essential goods and services after extensive vetting and background checks, potentially working with credible nongovernmental organizations, other U.N. agencies or the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza. “Following an orderly wind-down, UNRWA itself will neither be essential nor necessary to accomplishing the work that lies ahead in Gaza,” the official said.

Guterres, meanwhile, continues to support the agency. In remarks he delivered at the Sept. 24 Ministerial Meeting on UNRWA, the U.N. secretary-general described the agency as “a critical stabilizing presence.”

“For years now, UNRWA has been forced to operate under extraordinary pressure. I have repeatedly condemned in the strongest terms the appalling attacks by Hamas and other armed Palestinian groups against Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Since then, UNRWA’s personnel in Gaza have endured terrible loss and hardship. Nearly 400 members of its workforce have been killed. Hundreds of its premises remain inaccessible, severely damaged, or utterly destroyed,” Guterres said.

Guterres also said that “a ceaseless political campaign has tried to manipulate public perceptions, undermine UNRWA’s ability to operate, and deny the rights of Palestine refugees.” He called on U.N. Member States to “take immediate action” to politically and financially support the organization and protect its mandate.

Darshan-Leitner said that allowing UNRWA to continue operations inside Gaza would be problematic. “UNRWA indoctrinated [Palestinian refugees] and let the terror organizations infiltrate their schools and education facilities.” She added that UNRWA facilities “served Hamas as bases, as launchers, as missile storage places,” which both “risk the life of the citizens in Gaza,” and ensure that there will be collateral damage if Israel retaliates against attacks.

“If the Board of Peace wants to re-educate the people to get rid of the terrorist system, to separate between the terrorists and the citizens of Gaza, it cannot do it when UNRWA is around because UNRWA is embedded in Hamas…UNRWA is Hamas. So letting UNRWA take care of the humanitarian needs of the population in Gaza is a fatal mistake,” Darshan-Leitner said.