Donald Trump has always taken pride in taking credit for making deals between two conflicting countries — but when it comes to geography, the US president keeps closing the wrong map. At a high-level summit in Copenhagen, world leaders laughed at Trump’s expense after his repeated blunders, confusing Armenia with Albania while boasting about brokering peace in the South Caucasus, Politico reported. Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, joined by French President Emmanuel Macron and Azerbaijan’s Ilham Aliyev, turned Trump’s slip into a running gag — teasing Macron for failing to congratulate Albania on a “peace deal” it never signed.“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, leading Aliyev to burst out laughing. “I am sorry for that,” Macron joked.“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,” Trump said during an appearance on Fox News last month. And during a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Trump said, “We settled Aber-baijan and Albania,” butchering the name of one South Caucasus country and confusing the other one entirely. To be clear: Trump brokered a deal between the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan at the White House in August, with both countries committing to end decades of fighting and expand ties with Washington. As the video goes viral, Albania’s Edi Rama defended a lighthearted moment at a recent summit, saying media coverage had blown it out of proportion. Rama explained that a joking reference to President Trump’s geographic slip—claiming Albania had made peace with Azerbaijan—was made in good humor with friends, including French President Emmanuel Macron and Azerbaijan’s Ilham Aliyev. Rama called it a friendly exchange and criticized attempts to turn it into political fodder. He added that Trump has been a leader who brought “peace” back into Western diplomacy, achieving results where others failed, and that the summit moment was simply a bit of humor among admirers.
