WASHINGTON — A group of the President’s supporters congratulated the winner of the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday and released a 61-page report finding that every accomplishment of the laureate took place during the President’s lifetime, which the group counts as 74 assists.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced in Oslo on Friday morning that it had awarded the prize to Navi Pillay, the South African jurist, citing what it called her “exceptional courage and integrity” in the legal field and her efforts to promote peace and international law.
“First, congratulations to the laureate. Second, the timeline speaks for itself,” said Wendell Karsh, executive director of Americans for an Obvious Prize, which on Thursday had said it was confident the committee would recognize the President for ending 74 wars. “Everyone who wins a prize does it while he is alive. That is where we start.”
According to the group’s report, titled “Concurrent Timelines: A Review,” each year of the laureate’s career overlapped with a year of the President’s life, a finding the group describes as “unusually strong.” The report divides the overlap into 74 assists, one for each war on the group’s earlier list, with two additional assists for years in which the laureate and the President were in the same time zone. A footnote adds that the President was also alive on the day of the announcement, “which cannot be said of every prize-giving in history.”
The group also said it had shipped 30,000 commemorative plates to its members on Thursday afternoon, each reading “Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.” The plates do not carry a name or a year, which Karsh said was “the whole idea. They fit anyone who wins. They fit anyone, period.”
Dr. Chad Brickhouse, a senior fellow at the Institute for Common Sense, said the report’s logic was hard to argue with. “If a prize is won while you’re alive, you were there for it. It’s just common sense,” Brickhouse said by phone from a hardware store. “You can’t be there for something and not have helped. That’s what ’there’ means.”
Dr. Marjorie Teller, director of the Center for Measured Outcomes, said the Center had checked the report’s central claim against every Nobel Peace Prize awarded since 1901. “Every one of them was awarded during the lifetime of at least one living person,” Teller said. “In 100.0 percent of cases, someone was around. We were not able to determine whether that person helped. Further study is needed.”
Karsh said the group would not be returning the plates and that members who received one had been asked to hold it up at Saturday’s gatherings “with the year facing away.”
The Economics prize will be announced Monday. At a kitchen table in Lake Ternby, Minn., Gary Tunstall, 61, who has waited by his telephone since Sunday, said that he remained available.