Donald Trump meets with Nobel Prize winner in the Oval Office, and it’s a complete disaster

| 10:55 pm EDT July 19, 2019
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President Obama once won a Nobel Peace Prize, so the ever-jealous Donald Trump surely wishes he could win one as well. But the closest Trump will ever come to a Nobel Prize is to meet with someone who’s won one. Today he did precisely that, in the Oval Office no less, and let’s just say that it was the kind of disaster that only Trump is capable of.

How difficult can it be for the President of the United States to listen to a Nobel Peace Prize winner’s harrowing story, and show empathy accordingly? If that President of the United States is a malignant narcissist sociopath like Donald Trump, it turns out it’s actually very difficult. As the television cameras rolled, Nadia Murad told Trump about how ISIS killed half her family and took her into sex slavery, and Trump’s response was… almost indescribable.

Murad said that ISIS “killed my mom, my six brothers.” This prompted Trump to ask, “Where are they now?” She repeated that they were dead. Then, after listening to the entirety of her story, including the part where she overcame it all to become a human rights activist, Trump blankly asked why she was given a Nobel Prize.

Donald Trump’s reaction was somewhere been senility, disinterest, sociopathy, and seeming jealousy over the fact that this woman has won a Nobel Peace Prize and he hasn’t. Trump couldn’t even pretend to show interest in her story, or to care about what she’s been through. Trump’s handlers keep setting up moments like this to try to make him look more presidential and human, but these moments keep making him look even worse.