Nadia Murad, a Human Rights activist living in Germany, has stirred quite the conversation around human trafficking and victims of genocide in the United Nations. Nadia was taken as a slave by the Islamic terror group ISIS back in 2014 when they slaughtered her community, known as the Yazidi, killing her mother and 6 brothers in the process. After 3 months of enslavement, gruesome abuse, and rape, Nadia managed to escape.
Through the ‘Nadia Initiative’, she has been advocating for the victims of human trafficking and mass slaughter, helping rebuild their lives and communities. For her efforts against the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war, Nadia is the first Iraqi to have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Despite receiving such an honour, Nadia had to undergo an embarrassing instance of indifference from none other than Donald Trump. According to sources, the Nobel Laureate visited the White House to ask for the President’s help to press the Iraqi and Kurdish governments to create safe conditions for the Yazidis to return to their hometown.
However, President Trump seemed completely oblivious of not only the plea for aid from minor communities displaced from their homes but also from the fact that Murad was a Nobel Peace Prize awardee. This is how the conversation went and it’s completely cringe-worthy:
Watch the video here:
Unreal:
-Nadia Murad: “They [ISIS] Killed my mom, my six brothers”
-Donald Trump: “Where are they now?”
-Murad: “They Killed them..they are in the mass graves in Sinjar”
[Trump nods…]pic.twitter.com/g4YPUFStWI— Joyce Karam (@Joyce_Karam) July 19, 2019
His lack of empathy when Murad says her family was killed and asking her questions like, “And you had the Nobel Prize? That’s incredible. They gave it to you for what reason?” has netizens sighing with embarrassment.
https://twitter.com/travisakers/status/1152207322904764423
This man lacks any capacity for empathy or feeling for the suffering of other human beings. Look this woman in the fucking eye dude. She doesn't care about her Nobel Prize you asshole, she wants to go back home and keep her people safe. Outlandish. #UnfitForOffice https://t.co/FMhGk7F0qj
— Canon Manley (@CanonManley) July 19, 2019
Trump's body language as this woman speaks emotionally of her torment displays complete disinterest. When she mentions she has a Nobel Prize however, he practically turns into Homer Simpson: "OOOH you have a SHINY?!" https://t.co/VUJunHCAnn
— Jonathan Pie (@JonathanPieNews) July 19, 2019
https://twitter.com/RoArquette/status/1152191137525960704
I don't think he was even listening to her. He only remembered that his staff said she won the Nobel prize he craves so he can finally feel like the black president isn't better than him.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) July 19, 2019
This man lacks any capacity for empathy or feeling for the suffering of other human beings. Look this woman in the fucking eye dude. She doesn't care about her Nobel Prize you asshole, she wants to go back home and keep her people safe. Outlandish. #UnfitForOffice https://t.co/FMhGk7F0qj
— Canon Manley (@CanonManley) July 19, 2019
All @realDonaldTrump reacted to was why she received the Nobel Prize. No empathy, no respect for what others are going through, it's
absolutely shameful. https://t.co/OzCagVkhRj— Carol Walker 🌎🌊 (@mom49of3) July 19, 2019
This man is a fucking joke.. she’s talking about how dangerous her country is and how it’s not safe and instead of trying to help he’s talking about a Nobel prize and why they give it to her
This is America’s president https://t.co/hNeMKCAqaC— KAYMA🌸KEMAH (@kaymaballah) July 19, 2019
I think people are missing the worst part of this exchange, which isn’t that he’s fixated on her winning a Nobel prize, but it’s his obvious indifference and inattention to the more horrifying details of her story and her pleas to ‘do something’pic.twitter.com/ei6XqJvSrt
— Rachie A (@GetFuktHoosier) July 19, 2019
https://twitter.com/travisakers/status/1152207322904764423
For the ‘1st Man’ to behave in such a manner is nothing but shameful!