European Leaders Laugh at Trump's Cognitive Issues

It was just a year ago that US media informed us that Donald Trump had it going on cognitively over his opponent Joe Biden. Now European leaders are laughing at Trump's cognitive issues in public.

It was just a year ago that US media informed us that Donald Trump had it going on cognitively over his opponent Joe Biden. Now European leaders are laughing at Trump’s cognitive issues in public.

“European leaders at a high-level summit in Copenhagen poked fun at US President Donald Trump’s repeated mix-ups between Armenia and Albania, with a viral clip showing French President Emmanuel Macron sharing a laugh with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev and Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama,” Mint reported.

They laughed at Trump’s claim that he brokered a peace deal between Azerbaijan and Albania.

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“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,” Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama joked to Macron on Thursday at the summit.

“He means Azerbaijan and Armenia. ‘Aber-baijan’ and Albania do not share a border and are 1600 miles apart,” an account on X corrected.

Trump has been going around bragging about his accomplishments, “but in the process, has produced gaffe after gaffe.”

Addressing a joint press conference with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer recently, Trump confidently announced, “We settled Aber-baijan and Albania,” instead of Armenia, much to the UK PM’s confusion.

Trump also claimed to have solved a war between Azerbaijan and Albania and again, claimed at a dinner to have ended a conflict between Armenia and Cambodia, countries 4,150 miles apart.

“If you haven’t heard of the Armenian-Cambodian conflict, that’s okay, because neither has anyone else — other than President Donald Trump, who claims to have ended the supposedly brewing clash,” The Independent reported, saying “Trump again rattled off his peacemaking resume, the latest push in his desire to win a Nobel Peace Prize.”

Trump claimed victory for ending a war between “Cambodia and Armenia.”

But they note, “There has been no conflict between Armenia and Cambodia. The 79-year-old president appears to have mixed up Armenia’s tensions with Azerbaijan, and border violence between Cambodia and Thailand.”

It’s worth pointing out that all of these gaffes reflect a clear lack of comprehension of geography and geopolitics, and yet our media somehow missed this in Trump during his first term and again as he was running for office again after losing to Joe Biden in 2020.

Donald Trump has become an internationally infamous, cognitively-declined laughing stock, as Jake Tapper’s 2025 book claiming Biden had diminishing cognitive abilities is still on bookshelves.

The biggest claim in that book is that he failed to recognize George Clooney at a 2024 fundraiser. A woman could never get away with burning down the empire over “Don’t you know who I am,” but for Clooney and the mainstream media, the leader of the free world not recognizing a movie star at a fundraiser was a bridge too far.

Not knowing the names of countries or where their borders are when you claim to have solved non-existent wars is fine. But do not miss George Clooney if you see him coming at you at a fundraiser.

Tapper’s book was also concerned that Biden might even need a wheelchair in a second term due to declining physical health, which we now know to be due an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones. But it’s worth pointing out that needing a wheelchair didn’t stop Franklin Delano Roosevelt from getting things done.

At any rate, in that disastrous debate that Biden lost to Trump because he was not energetic and came across as weak, it is also true that his answers were nuanced and displayed a comprehensive understanding of both foreign and domestic policy. I said then that he had lost the debate largely because of how our media and culture judges what are supposed to be policy debates. Biden lost because he seemed exhausted. He probably was exhausted. It turns out, he had been doing a lot of work and he had cancer.