President Donald Trump once again appeared to confuse countries in a boast over the weekend about how many wars he has supposedly ended and how deserving he is of the Nobel Peace Prize.
In a speech carried by C-SPAN, Trump claimed to have stopped a war between Armenia and Cambodia, two small countries on different sides of Asia that have never been at war with each other.
Presumably Trump meant Armenia and Azerbaijan, a real conflict during which he presided over peace talks. But this is not the first time he mixed up countries while talking about this agreement. At one point, he said the conflict was between Armenia and Albania, and another time he claimed he stopped a war involving "Aberbaijan."
Trump was also involved in peace negotiations after border tensions between Cambodia and its neighbor, Thailand.
Trump's latest blunder found its way onto the subreddit r/armenia, with the caption, "I didn't know Armenia was at war with Cambodia. It's good that you made peace."
Meanwhile, on X, commentators showed no mercy for Trump's blunder, drowning him in mockery.
"Trump: We stopped the conflict between Cambodia and Armenia. It was just starting and it was a bad one," wrote the Republicans Against Trump account. "There was never a war between them. They’re 4,000 miles apart."
"Wait wait Cambodia was at war with Armenia????" wrote "JoJoFromJerz." "Given the fact that they are 4,180 miles apart, this really IS something!!! Thank you mighty TRUMP!!"
"Obama once said 57 instead of 47 after a long day of campaigning and it was a point of attack against him for years," wrote immigration expert Aaron Reichlin-Melnick. "Trump says Cambodia instead of Azerbaijan and it’s just a normal day."
"Wow! I’m glad that President Trump stopped the war between Cambodia and Armenia!" wrote New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. "That’s one that Biden never even attempted to end."
"If Trump wants the Nobel Peace Prize for stopping the conflict between Cambodia and Armenia ('a bad one') I want one for stopping years of dreadful bloodshed between Peru and Lithuania! What an idiot!" wrote British-born French journalist Alex Taylor.
