President tells a national radio show he ended the war between 'Aber-baijan' and Albania.

Eleven days ago, the President of the United States stood in the State Dining Room of the White House and shook hands with the prime minister of Armenia and the president of Azerbaijan on a peace deal his own administration had brokered. Cameras rolled. He held the press release. The countries are Armenia and Azerbaijan. The road through them, which the deal renamed after him, has the word Trump in the actual name. He sat through the photo line for thirty minutes.

On Tuesday, the same President called into the Mark Levin radio show. On the air, on national radio, in the President’s own voice, the President described the war he had just ended as the war between “Aber-baijan” and Albania. He said it three separate times.

Buddy. Albania is in Europe. Albania is on the Adriatic Sea. Albania is approximately two thousand miles from where the actual fighting happened. Albania has not been at war with Azerbaijan or anybody adjacent to Azerbaijan in living memory. The country the President ended a war with is Armenia. Armenia. Armen-i-a. Two minutes on the map, you’ve got it.

The Prime Minister of Albania heard about it the same day and made a joke at a European meeting that he should be congratulated, since Trump has ended the conflict between Albania and Azerbaijan. The other prime ministers laughed. They laughed in the way you laugh at a joke that is also a small fire alarm.

I have been arguing with televisions for thirty years. I have heard a lot of guys mix up things. I have heard a guy mix up racetracks. I have heard a guy mix up Springsteen and Seger. I have never heard a man mix up the country he just ended a war with. That is a special category of mistake. That is the mistake of a man who is not certain, on a Tuesday, who he had over for dinner the Friday of last week.

The peace, narrowly, is real. The road has his name on it. The man who got the road his name does not appear to know what country it goes through.

I’m arguing with the television. The television is not arguing back. The television is making a face.