US President Donald Trump vowed on Friday that Washington would not forget Norway's decision to pass him over for the Nobel Peace Prize, which went instead to South African jurist Navi Pillay. Trump aired his grievance at length that evening at a rally in Syracuse, New York, a campaign event meant to promote other Republican candidates. The United States, he said, "represented by me as your president, should have received the Nobel peace prize, but didn't." He called the decision "an indelible stain on the country of Norway" and said "a handful of radical ideologues" had discredited the award. The winner, he said, was "a liberal person who works at the United Nations, who nobody has ever heard of." "We will not forget, Norway, that you didn't give this prize," he said. The Nobel Committee is appointed by Norway's parliament but operates independently of the government. The laureate Navi Pillay, 85, made her name as an anti-apartheid lawyer whose clients included Nelson Mandela. She went on to serve as a judge at the International Criminal Court and as the UN's human rights chief. In 2025 she led a UN commission that concluded Israel had committed genocide in Gaza, a finding that Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu both reject. After learning of her win at a law forum in Nuremberg, Germany, she told an applauding crowd: "If you clap a little bit more, I may share this prize with Trump," in reference to last year's laureate, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who dedicated her award to Trump. Hours after the announcement, Washington imposed new sanctions on the International Criminal Court, which Secretary of State Marco Rubio called a "rogue court." The step had reportedly been planned for next week but was brought forward after the prize was announced.