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World leaders were caught up in camera on Thursday, October 2nd, chuckling at President Donald Trump’s recent gaffe, where he was praised for solving a nonexistent war between Albania and Azerbaijan.
At the European Political Community Conference in Copenhagen, Albanian Prime Minister Eddie Rama threw his arm around French President Emmanuel Macron, who was talking to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
“You should apologise because President Trump did not bless us with the peace agreement he made between Albania and Azerbaijan,” Rama sarcastically told Macron, pointing to him and Aliyev. “He worked so hard.”
All three men quickly understood Llama’s joke and laughed. Macron went with Bit and apologized for not blessing the country, and he playfully slapped Rama in the face for a suspicious comment.
In a September 12 interview on Fox & Friends, Trump first confusing Armenia and Albania, saying, “I solved a war that I can’t solve. Azerbaijan and Albania, and for many years I had a prime minister and president in my office.”
At a September 18 press conference with British Prime Minister Kiel Starmer, Trump made another mistake while promoting his diplomacy, adding the false flav of Azerbaijan. He said he had settled Abar Baijan and Albania, but he was meant to say “Azerbaijan and Armenia.”
Azerbaijan and Albania do not share borders, are thousands of miles apart from each other, and most importantly, they did not become war.
Despite Trump’s gaffe, he would have been right to say he was involved in the recent peace deal between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
On August 8, Trump held a meeting at the White House between Azerbaijani President Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
Part of the contract exclusively granted the US the right to develop new corridors that would develop new corridors that would pass through Armenia to link Azerbaijan to the territory of the inland Naktiban.
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Trump’s Armenia – Albanian gaffe appears to have been taken heartily by European leaders on Thursday, but some critics have expressed concern that his approach to diplomacy is putting the US in hot water.
On September 30, Democrat Madeleine Dean was caught pushing House Speaker Mike Johnson to take action in light of some of Trump’s recent actions.
“The president is indifferent. He’s feeling sick,” Dean told Johnson on a video broadcast by MSNBC.
“It’s so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing,” Dean said.
Dean specifically referenced Trump’s “performance in front of the general” earlier in the day when Trump and Pentagon leader Pete Hegses spoke to hundreds of senior military officials in Quantico.
The room was silent for most of Trump’s ramblings – during which he avoided the Armenian-Albanian confusion by not name either when talking about the Azerbaijan peace agreement – an observation he admitted shortly after he took the stage.
“I’ve never walked into such a quiet room before,” he said. “If you want to praise, you praise. You can do whatever you want.”
He continued, “If you don’t like what I’m saying, you can leave the room. But you have your rank and your future.”
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This caused the president to giggle nervously in the room. But he seemed even more serious when he told reporters something similar before getting on board the Marines earlier that morning.
“I’m going to meet with the generals, the admirals and the leaders,” he said of the Quantico gathering. “And if I don’t like anyone, I’ll fire them right there right away.”
