Speaking at what was supposed to be a rally for other Republican candidates, President Donald Trump devoted a long portion of his speech to airing grievances about the Nobel Peace Prize, which was awarded this year to former UN human rights chief Navi Pillay.
"The United States of America, represented by me as your president, should have received the Nobel peace prize, but didn't. And this is an indelible stain on the country of Norway, and those people that made such a disgraceful and embarrassing decision," Trump said.
"The Nobel peace prize has been forever discredited by a handful of radical ideologues who are anti-democracy and really enemies of civilization," he continued. "We will not forget, Norway, that you didn't give this prize."
Trump recited a list of conflicts he claimed to have settled, some of which were not wars and others still unresolved, before adding: "I'm about to settle or win two more: Iran and Russia-Ukraine." He said he would end both wars "quickly".
"I will tell you what," he added. "Iran will be very quick one way or the other: that they give us everything or they don't exist any longer."
The president also claimed to have stopped Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, asserting he "saved more lives than anyone in history." US intelligence agencies reported to Congress in 2025 that Iran suspended its pursuit of nuclear weapons in 2003.
Trump described Pillay as "a liberal person who works at the United Nations, who nobody has ever heard of." Pillay chaired the UN commission that concluded Israel was guilty of genocide in Gaza.