Video taking off 58x its usual first day

Navi Pillay offers to share her Nobel Peace Prize with Trump, for more applause

The new laureate's half-minute of humor in Nuremberg has become the Post's most talked-about Short, with a comment section a hundred times busier than usual.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 281,597 views a day, 58 times a normal first day on this channel (4,841).

Nobel Peace Prize winner jokes: ‘I may share this prize with Trump’

Navi Pillay set a price for her generosity: louder applause. "If you clap a little bit more, I may share this prize with Trump," the newly named Nobel Peace Prize laureate told a crowd, and the room laughed.

The Washington Post's Short catches the moment almost by accident. Pillay stands in a doorway in Nuremberg, Germany, when someone off camera calls for a speech. She thanks the audience, delivers the joke, then takes a microphone and turns serious. "Your applause means a great deal to me," she says, adding that nobody should want an award unless the public agrees they deserve it. The footage is credited to Agnes Callamard, the French human rights advocate who has led Amnesty International.

The setting suits the speaker. Pillay is a South African jurist who presided over the United Nations tribunal for Rwanda and later served as U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights. Nuremberg is the city whose postwar trials helped found the international criminal law she spent her career applying.

The clip has drawn close to 300,000 views, a rare audience for a Post Short. The comments arrived roughly a hundred times faster than on a usual first day. Many viewers read the joke as a nod to last year's laureate, María Corina Machado, who dedicated her prize in part to Trump. Others simply note that she improvised it on the spot.

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