Trump calls the Nobel Peace committee "corrupt" and says Pillay is an unknown

US President Donald Trump said this Friday that the new winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, South African judge Navanethem "Navi" Pillay, is an unknown, called the prize committee "corrupt" and once again claimed it for himself.

"Today they gave the Nobel Peace Prize to a person I had never heard of," the president said at a rally in Syracuse, New York, although he later described Pillay as a "liberal person who works at the United Nations" and congratulated her.

However, after awarding the former judge and co-creator of the International Criminal Court (ICC), he stated that the award "has been forever discredited by a handful of radical ideologues who are anti-democratic and, in reality, enemies of civilization," and considered it "corrupt."

His comments follow the controversial US decision to sanction the ICC following the award of Pillay, who was part of the independent United Nations commission on Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, which concluded that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza.

"The United States of America, represented by me as its president, should have received the Nobel Peace Prize, but they did not," ranted Trump, who took credit for having resolved several conflicts in the world, as on other occasions.

Trump precisely congratulated himself for supposedly resolving the conflict between Israel and Hamas, ensuring that "it is now a very different Hamas," and also for, in his opinion, "preventing Iran from having a nuclear weapon and blowing up the entire Middle East."

Likewise, he recalled that the Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado gave him the Nobel Peace Prize last year and took the opportunity to highlight the intervention of the United States in Venezuela with the message that "the winner goes to the spoils."