President Trump will not meet with the American Nobel laureates this year, Stat News reported.
The decision breaks with that of past presidents, who have met with the American Nobel Prize winners nearly every year since 2001.
Two American Nobel Prize winners told Stat News they didn't plan to go to the White House if there was an event.
Columbia biophysicist Joachim Frank said he was "relieved" he wouldn't see the president.
“I will not put my foot into the White House as long as Trump, [Vice President] Pence, or [Speaker Paul] Ryan (i.e., the possible succession of impeachments) will occupy it,” Frank told Stat.
“I cannot speak for the others; don’t know them personally yet, but I strongly believe that as thinking intelligent people they will have a similar attitude as I.”
The White House said Trump wouldn't meet with the recipients in person because of foreign travel. Trump has been traveling through Asia and is expected to return late Tuesday.
Yeah, okay.
Both Barack Obama and George W. Bush met with the American Nobel prize winners during their presidencies, but then again they were not quite as terrified of intelligence as Tangerine Hitler.
You know you really cannot blame the two scientists quoted in this article for not wanting to meet Trump.
It would be akin to Jane Goodall attempting to sit down to tea with one of the chimpanzees she was studying.
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