Trump Gets Roasted by European Leaders Over His Hilarious Geography Blunder
Look, we’ve all had those moments where we blank on a country’s location or mix up names—it’s human. But when it’s the President of the United States doing it on the world stage, you can bet everyone else is going to have a good laugh about it.
European leaders couldn’t hold back their chuckles at Donald Trump’s latest slip-up with the map.
“A Lot of Folks Come from the Congo”
Trump’s got his own quirky take on geography, especially for spots that catch his eye. Remember when he talked about the “Gulf of America,” or his wild idea to buy Greenland and make it part of the U.S.? And for places a little more off the beaten path, things get even hazier.
Just a few months back, he casually mentioned not being totally sure about where the Congo in Africa is, noting that “many people come from the Congo.”
He’s also swapped Hungary and Turkey before, referring to Viktor Orbán as “the leader of Turkey” and saying Hungary borders Russia.
Then there was the time he announced, “We’re going to Russia,” right before a chat with Vladimir Putin—that meeting actually happened in Alaska, as Politico reported.
The Latest Geography Mix-Up
More recently, Trump’s been bragging about his foreign policy triumphs, but he’s kept confusing two entirely different countries. He’s even patted himself on the back for easing long-standing tensions between Azerbaijan and Armenia… except he called it Albania.
On Fox News last month, he said: “I solved wars that was unsolvable. Azerbaijan and Albania, it was going on for many, many years, I had the prime ministers and presidents in my office.”
Yeah, you can probably spot the confusion right there.
At a summit in Copenhagen on Thursday (October 2), EU leaders jumped on the chance to poke fun. Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama looked over at French President Emmanuel Macron and Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev and quipped: “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,” according to Politico.
The three of them burst out laughing, and Macron shot back: “I’m sorry for that.”
For the record, Albania’s tucked away in the Balkans in Europe, while Azerbaijan’s over in the South Caucasus, close to Armenia. No beef between those two at all.
That said, Trump did play a role in brokering an actual agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia back in August, aiming to wrap up a conflict that’s dragged on for almost 40 years.
President Aliyev sat down with Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan at the White House, and they hashed out a peace deal—though it’s still not officially signed.
Trump hasn’t let the fine print get in the way of claiming it as a big win for the U.S. and himself. He even shared a cozy anecdote about the meeting: “And they started off at both sides of the Oval Office, so far away, I didn’t know you could be so far away. And as we were together for an hour, they kept getting closer and closer and by the time we finished, we all hugged each other.”
During a presser with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Trump tripped over the details again when asked about the deal. He butchered the pronunciation of Azerbaijan as “Aber-baijan” and, naturally, tossed Albania back into the conversation: “I am very disappointed in the fact that that one’s not settled. To think that we settled, Aber-baijan, and Albania, as an example. It was going on for years. It was never gonna be settled. If you remember the prime minister and the presidents and they were there for many years, they said when they were in my office, we settled.”
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