{"id":2014,"date":"2026-06-22T23:12:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T23:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2014"},"modified":"2026-06-22T23:12:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T23:12:45","slug":"confused-trump-80-asks-professor-did-you-know-my-uncle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2014","title":{"rendered":"Confused Trump, 80, Asks Professor \u2018Did You Know My Uncle?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>President Donald Trump had an awkward interaction when he randomly asked an internationally renowned physicist if he happened to know his uncle during a bizarre exchange in the Oval Office. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2012\">Ivanka Shares Fresh Photos From Wedding Trump Skipped<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The president, 80, had gathered administration officials, scientists and tech company leaders in the Oval Office to sign two executive orders related to the government prioritizing quantum technology. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Among those in attendance was Nobel prize-winning physicist and professor John Martinis. The professor jointly won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2025 for the groundbreaking research that was originally published in a 1985 paper. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>First, the president awkwardly asked Martinis if he should share how long ago it was, to which the professor said with a smile, \u201cabout 40 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president responded that it was \u201cpretty good\u201d and then admitted \u201cI\u2019ve been waiting for one of them too,\u201d referring to the Nobel Peace Prize he has long coveted, before complaining \u201cthey don\u2019t think eight wars is enough\u201d and claiming bizarrely that \u201ceven though nobody\u2019s ever done one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But moments later, the president\u2019s interaction with Martinis took an even stranger turn. <\/p>\n<p>The president, who remained seated at his desk, had been talking about oil and the Strait of Hormuz, when he suddenly turned back to the professor standing over his shoulder with a completely unrelated inquiry. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you know of my uncle at all?\u201d Trump asked, sounding exhausted.<\/p>\n<p>Martinis turned to his right in confusion, as if to see who the president was suddenly speaking to, but Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who was standing right next to him, gestured back, indicating that Trump was asking Martinis the question. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, no,\u201d Martinis said with a smile. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou didn\u2019t?\u201d Trump repeated, to which Martinis responded, \u201cNo, sorry,\u201d as those around them laughed. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2010\">Grandmother, 76, Killed When Tesla on Autopilot Crashes Into House<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Martinis awkwardly joked about how the University of California, Berkeley, which was where he received his doctorate and conducted research, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where Trump\u2019s uncle was a professor, were on opposite coasts of the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Trump looked like he was about to respond for a moment, but then he changed his mind and called on Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to speak instead. <\/p>\n<p>The president has repeatedly boasted for years, often in exaggerated or completely inaccurate terms, about having a brilliant uncle, John Trump, who was a professor at MIT. <\/p>\n<p>While the elder Trump was an MIT professor, he taught electrical engineering and was not a physicist like Martinis. Professor Trump also died in 1985, the same year Martinis\u2019 original joint paper, which eventually earned him the Nobel Prize, was published while he was a student at Berkeley<b>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The obsession with his uncle has repeatedly surfaced in Trump\u2019s public appearances, including when speaking about\u2014bizarrely\u2014the Unabomber. In July 2025, he told a long and rambling story claiming that Theodore \u201cTed\u201d Kaczynski had been one of his uncle\u2019s students. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you know who Kaczynski was? There\u2019s very little difference between a madman and a genius,\u201d Trump added. The president then told an impossible-to-believe anecdote about a conversation he claims he had with his uncle: \u201cI said, \u2018What kind of a student was he, Uncle John?\u2019 Dr. John Trump. He said, \u2018What kind of a student? \u2018Man,\u2019 he said, \u2018seriously good &#8230; He\u2019d go around correcting everybody.\u2019 But it didn\u2019t work out too well for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The alleged conversation would had to have occurred years before the public even knew Kaczynski was responsible for the bombings, which killed three people and injured 23 others between 1978 and 1995. Kaczynski was arrested by the FBI in April 1996. He pleaded guilty in January 1998.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Furthermore, Kaczynski didn\u2019t attend MIT. He studied at Harvard and the University of Michigan and later took on an assistant professor role at the University of California at Berkeley.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2008\">Millions of Bees Accidentally Released in 18-Wheeler Crash<\/a><\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump had an awkward interaction when he randomly asked an internationally renowned physicist if he happened to know his uncle during a bizarre exchange in the Oval Office. 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