Donald Trump unleashes unhinged rant over Nobel Peace Prize snub – ‘I settled 8 wars’!

80Donald Trump is furious at not winning the Nobel Peace Prize (Image: Getty)Donald Trump has launched a furious outburst after not being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, insisting he "settled 8 wars, and is "close to ending or settling two more". Navi Pillay, a South African-born jurist and former UN human rights chief, whose career has included defending the rights of an imprisoned Nelson Mandela to leading a panel that found that Israel committed genocide in Gaza, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for efforts that the award committee said promoted international law as it comes under attack.

However, her win was seen as a high-profile rebuke to US President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who have both rejected the findings of the UN commission she led on Gaza.

The leaders have also been highly critical of the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court. Pillay has worked at both.

Hours after the award was announced in Norway, the Trump administration imposed sweeping new sanctions on the International Criminal Court as part of its campaign to dismantle the tribunal over investigations into the United States and its allies, including Israel.

Now, in a new post on his Truth Social platform, the 80-year-old US President launched a furious attack over not winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

He wrote: "I settled 8 WARS, am close to ending or settling 2 more, got all of the Israeli hostages back, including the final 28, both living and dead, had hundreds of hostages, from countries all over the World, released and sent back home, won a war in Venezuela, and captured the violent dictator who so viciously ran that country, and stopped the number one state sponsor of terror, the Islamic Republic of Iran, from obtaining a Nuclear Weapon – AND MUCH MORE!

"Yet, with all of that I, or the United States of America, did not get the Noble Peace Prize. WOW!"

Mr Trump claimed he deserved the prize and dismissed Pillay as "a liberal person who works at the United Nations who nobody has ever heard of". He later said on social media that "she, very obviously, hates Israel."

"The Nobel Peace Prize has been forever discredited by a handful of radical ideologues who are anti-democracy and really enemies of civilisation," Trump told a rally for Republican candidates in Syracuse, New York. "And we will not forget, Norway."

On the 125th anniversary of the prize's inception, the Norwegian Nobel Committee sought "to remind the world that the rule of law, national and international, underpins the system we have set up to ensure peace and resolve conflicts nonviolently.

"Peace requires justice," committee Chairman Jørgen Watne Frydnes said.

Judges "guard the thin red line between order and chaos," and the world needs jurists "of courage, vision and determination, qualities that Navi Pillay demonstrates in her work on the bench."

In places such as Israel and in apartheid-era South Africa, she and her peers took on some of the most sensitive legal issues and most vulnerable populations.

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 Gaza.