Donald Trump had some awkward exchanges with survivors of religious persecution during a meeting with them in the Oval Office on Wednesday. When Nobel laureate and Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad requested aid for the Yazidis, Trump replied: ‘And you had the Nobel prize? That’s incredible. They gave it to you for what reason?’ When asked by a Rohingya refugee about the plan to help his people, the US president replied: ‘Where is that exactly?’
Awkward exchanges as Trump meets with religious persecution survivors
By Priya Saha