US President Donald Trump shared a post on his social media strongly criticizing Nabi Pillai, who was selected as this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, and the host Nobel Committee.
On the 9th (local time), President Trump re-shared another person's post on Truth Social criticizing the Nobel Committee's decision on the Peace Prize winner.
The author of the post said, "Today, by awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Nabi Pillai of the United Nations, the Nobel Committee has irreparably tarnished its own reputation and tarnished the once great status of the Nobel Peace Prize."
He then criticized Pillai as "a person who blatantly hates the United States and Israel," and claimed that he praised terrorists and offered rewards to the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
On the other hand, this author praised President Trump, saying, "We achieved the Abraham Accords, which the whole world said was impossible, and are still expanding them," and praised President Trump for making efforts to return hostages, end the war between Russia and Ukraine, stop Iran, and rebuild the Gaza Strip.
He added, “These are exactly what the Nobel Peace Prize sought to recognize and reward.”
President Trump shared this post without explanation. It is interpreted as an indirect expression of dissatisfaction with the results of selecting the Nobel Peace Prize winner.
President Trump spoke at the 'Columbus Day' commemoration event held at the White House that day, but did not mention the Nobel Peace Prize.
President Trump, who has publicly expressed his desire to win the Nobel Peace Prize, emphasized his diplomatic achievements on the 7th, saying that he resolved eight wars and saved millions of lives, and repeatedly expressed his expectations of winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
Pillai, a human rights law expert from South Africa, served as the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and a judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC), and led the UN Commission of Inquiry that concluded last year that Israel had committed genocide in the Gaza Strip.
The Trump administration announced high-intensity sanctions designating the ICC itself as a target of sanctions just hours after Pillai's award announcement.
The Trump administration's position is that these sanctions were prepared before the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize, but there are also speculations that the timing of the sanctions announcement was deliberately chosen to indirectly reveal dissatisfaction with the award of Pillai, who served as an ICC judge.
