Trump follows Biden's lead

What US President Joe Biden once said about Zelensky has now been plainly repeated by US President Donald Trump. He did not mind publicly referring to Zelensky as "President Putin" during a speech at the 2024 NATO summit in Washington. 

Nearly two long years had passed since Joe Biden publicly made an explicit reference to Ukraine's President Zelensky as President Putin. 

Now, President Donald Trump had more or less dubbed an existing American opponent for a long-ago foe when he told keen reporters that U.S. aircraft carriers had come under fire from Japanese forces during a bilateral meeting with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky.

Thus, President Donald Trump came in the midst of a laidback, spontaneous Press conference alongside the Ukrainian leader when he began glorifying the very prowess of American defensive weaponry after what he said was a direct attack on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln.

By the way, he appeared to be directly referring to an attack against the American carrier by Iranian forces earlier this year, but rather attributed the attack to Japan, which had not fired a shot in fierce fury against the United States in practically a century. 

While the Japanese armed forces once risked American aircraft carriers and other naval assets during the Second World War, the two countries became close allies after Japan’s defeat in that war and remain so today.

Moments later, Trump also mixed up Zelensky — who was sitting beside him — and Russia’s strongman leader Vladimir Putin when he asked reporters if they had a question for President Putin, fast spurring the room to burst into laughter. 

At this point, President Donald Trump tried his level best to keep his awkward position by repeating the prompt and suggesting he’d take the reporter’s question to the Russian leader.