Trump, breaking with precedent, will not meet with American Nobel recipients
The White House has hosted an event in the laureates’ honor nearly every year since 2001, but a spokesman cited Trump's travel as an obstacle to a meeting.
WASHINGTON — President Trump, breaking a tradition that stretches back nearly two decades, will not personally greet the eight American Nobel laureates this year before they travel to Sweden in December to receive their prizes.
Not all the honorees are disappointed.
Two American Nobel Prize winners, when contacted by STAT, indicated they would not have, awarded a Nobel in chemistry for his work in microscopy, said in an email he was “very relieved” when he learned there was no chance of an encounter with the president.
