Putin at all times on his thoughts? Trump refers to Ukraine’s Zelensky as ‘new Russian president’

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Donald Trump has galvanized Russiagate diehards lurking on social media, after mistakenly referring to Volodymyr Zelensky as the brand new chief of… Russia.

The US president made the slip-up whereas defending his relationship with Kiev, which is at the moment being scrutinized by Democratic lawmakers. The impeachment inquiry is making an attempt to find out if Trump tried to stress Zelensky to open an investigation into the son of Democratic presidential candidate, Joe Biden.

Trump advised reporters on Monday that the accusations had been based mostly on a “false narrative” of a cellphone dialog he had with the Ukrainian president – including that Zelensky himself had confirmed that nothing untoward had occurred.

“The Russian, as , the brand new Russian president, a very good man, made an announcement. There was no something. There was no stress placed on him. No something,” Trump mentioned, mixing up Zelensky’s nation of origin.

The error delighted religious disciples of the now-debunked conspiracy concept that Trump was (or nonetheless is) by some means in cahoots with the Kremlin.

In a equally sizzling take, the Washington Put up’s Moscow correspondent described the error as “the most important insult one may throw on the chief of Ukraine.”

However individuals most likely shouldn’t learn too deep into the mix-up. Trump has a well-documented historical past of geographical blunders. In August, the president misstated the placement of a mass taking pictures throughout a press convention to commemorate the tragic occasion, mistakenly referring to the town of Toledo, as a substitute of Dayton, Ohio.

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