As a video catches foreign leaders laughing at one of the American president's mistakes, this was not an isolated incident.
As a video catches foreign leaders laughing at one of Trump’s mistakes, remember: This wasn’t the first time officials abroad used the Republican president as a punchline.
For all of his talk about global “respect,†he’s routinely seen as a joke. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-10-02T16:18:54.713Z
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/european-leaders-caught-mocking-trump-false-claim-ending-war-rcna235194
The reality, of course, is that
Trump has wildly exaggerated his record, taking credit for resolving conflicts he had little to do with, and even pointing to wars that haven’t actually been resolved. What’s more, in a couple of instances, the Republican president has slipped up and pointed to wars that never happened in the first place, including an imaginary conflict between Cambodia and Armenia, as well as a recent boast on Fox News in which he said
, “I solved wars that was unsolvable,” pointing to a conflict between Azerbaijan and Albania.”....
The mistake did not go unnoticed among the leaders of the relevant nations. Politico reported:
U.S. President Donald Trump’s geographic confusion was the butt of a joke between world leaders at a summit Thursday. Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama was filmed poking fun with French President Emmanuel Macron and Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev at the European Political Community meeting in Copenhagen on Thursday.
“You should make an apology ... to us because you didn’t congratulate us on the peace deal that President Trump made between Albania and Azerbaijan,” Rama told Macron, as Aliyev was seen laughing.
Playing along, the French president replied:
“I am sorry for that.”
Albanian PM Edi Rama mocked Trump to Macron: “You should congratulate Ilham Aliyev and me. Trump has ended the conflict between Albania and Azerbaijanâ€
Earlier Trump claimed he ended a war between Albania and Azerbaijan. It was a war between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
— The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) 2025-10-02T15:12:37.873Z
.....In 2019, for example,
Macron, then-Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson were recorded at a Buckingham Palace reception, apparently mocking their American counterpart. A year earlier, during remarks at the U.N. General Assembly, Trump bragged about how impressed he is with himself, at which point some of the diplomats in the room started audibly laughing........
For all of Trump’s boasts about how he has singlehandedly improved international respect for the United States,
the evidence suggests many of his global counterparts see him as a punchline.
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