Trump Rages Over Nobel Loss, Repeats India-Pak War Claim — SkimNews
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- Trump posted on Truth Social after Navi Pillay — a South African jurist of Indian origin and former UN human rights chief — won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, dismissing her as 'nobody ever heard of' and labeling the Nobel Committee 'Radical Ideologues' who are 'Enemies of Civilization.'
- Trump repeated his claim that he prevented a full-fledged nuclear war between India and Pakistan in 2025, asserting he saved 50 million lives — a claim New Delhi has consistently denied.
- Trump said he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize 'eight times' for settling eight wars and listed Iran and Russia-Ukraine as conflicts he is 'about to settle,' also claiming he 'stopped Iran from having a Nuclear Weapon, and blowing up the entire Middle East.'
- Trump said the Nobel Prize has been 'forever discredited' and blamed a 'handful' of committee members for bias, despite being endorsed, he claimed, by letters from presidents and prime ministers of countries he helped.
- Only four US presidents have previously won the Nobel Peace Prize — Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter, and Barack Obama — with Trump singling out Obama as someone who 'got a prize for doing nothing.'
Why it matters: Trump's signature India-Pakistan mediation claim — his central case for the Nobel — is explicitly contradicted by India's government, which has consistently denied any third-party intervention. His post also expands his peace-broker resume to include stopping Iran's nuclear program and resolving Russia-Ukraine, neither of which has materialized.
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