Two days after he twice said he was 'going to
Russia' for his Alaska summit with
Vladimir Putin, President
Donald Trump used a Soviet-era name to describe Russia’s second-largest city as he attacked a former adviser on social media.
Writing on Truth Social to complain about “very unfair media” coverage of his upcoming summit with the Russian president, he said the press would even go so far to say he’d made a “bad deal” even if he reached an agreement for the United States to acquire “Moscow and Leningrad” without giving up anything in return.
The president appeared to be unaware of one small detail: The city he called “Leningrad” is actually called St. Petersburg and has been since city residents voted to ditch the Soviet-era name in June 1991.
It was the second embarrassing geographic mix-up in three days for Trump, who on Monday also appeared to forget that the site of his sit-down with Putin (a former deputy mayor of St. Petersburg) is happening on sovereign American territory in the state of Alaska.
Russian president Vladimir Putin was once deputy mayor of the city Trump misidentified
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