US President Donald Trump has long made political capital out of his rivals' mistakes, however his recent mix-ups have now pointed his finger right back at him.
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He once screened a compilation of Joe Biden's stumbles at a campaign rally. When Biden mixed up Trump and Kamala Harris during the 2024 race, Trump gleefully responded on X: "Great job, Joe!" And when Barack Obama once misspoke about visiting 57 states, Trump posted: "Can you imagine if I said that. Story of the year!"
He has now said things like that, repeatedly.
The latest came at the Nato summit in Ankara on Wednesday, where Trump made three notable errors in under ten minutes while seated beside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He referred to Iran as "the Islamic Republic of Japan" while recounting a missile strike, mangled the acronym for the Iran nuclear deal, calling it the "JCPOC" instead of JCPOA. Trump then asked the assembled press corps if they had "a question for President Putin" while Zelenskyy sat next to him. Biden made a nearly identical Zelenskyy-Putin mix-up at the 2024 NATO summit.
