Leaders Share a Joke at Copenhagen Summit

European leaders couldn’t resist poking fun at Donald Trump this week after yet another geography blunder. The former U.S. president confused Albania with Azerbaijan—two very different countries—while boasting about his foreign policy record.

At a summit in Copenhagen on October 2, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama turned to French President Emmanuel Macron and Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev with a grin. “You should apologize to us because you didn’t congratulate us on the peace deal that President Trump made between Albania and Azerbaijan,” he joked, according to Politico. The quip sent the trio into laughter, with Macron replying, “I’m sorry for that.”

The Confusion Explained

Trump has long claimed credit for brokering peace in the Caucasus, saying he helped calm tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan. In fact, in August, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and President Aliyev met at the White House, where they tentatively agreed to a peace deal. The agreement, however, remains unsigned.

But when recalling the event on Fox News, Trump muddled the details. “I solved wars that were unsolvable. Azerbaijan and Albania, it was going on for many, many years,” he said. The mix-up raised eyebrows and prompted quiet laughter abroad.