Donald Trump made an embarrassing mistake during a campaign appearance in Richmond, Virginia, last weekend. The former US president confused President Joe Biden and Barack Obama during a speech on Saturday…
“(Vladimir) Putin has so little respect for Obama that he is starting to confuse the word nuclear. You heard it. Nuclear. He starts talking about nuclear weapons today. I’ve been waiting for this, but we have an idiot as president, an idiot. He said we will not leave until complete and total victory is achieved. And we could stay there for a long time,” Trump said in Richmond on Saturday evening.
According to a report in the English newspaper The Guardian, the crowd in Richmond fell silent and there was an awkward silence when Trump referred to Obama, who left office more than seven years ago.
Tried to portray mistakes as intentional
Trump then tried to portray his confusion as intentional. “I deliberately mixed up their names because in my eyes they are interchangeable,” he explained. It is the third time in the past six months that Trump has made such a mistake.
Trump’s mistake came a day after President Biden twice threw Ukraine and Gaza into disarray when he announced Friday that the US would suspend humanitarian aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, where people are starving due to Israeli bombing and blockades.
Orban confused with Erdogan during speech
Confusion happens to Trump again and again: at the end of October last year, during a campaign speech in the small town of Derry, in the US state of New Hampshire, he confused Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
About a week later, he made another embarrassing mistake during a campaign appearance in Iowa. He greeted the crowd in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, during a campaign appearance, but the event took place in Sioux City, Iowa’s fourth largest city…
Source: Krone
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