U.S. President Donald Trump mistakenly referred to Japan as the “Islamic Republic” during an impromptu news conference at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Turkey’s capital Ankara on Wednesday, July 8 – drawing attention to a series of verbal slips that occurred throughout the day.
Trump made the comment while standing alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, according to reports from Mediaite and The National. Trump recounted that the USS Abraham Lincoln, a U.S. aircraft carrier, faced an attack of 111 missiles from what he called the “Islamic Republic of Japan,” and stated that all missiles were intercepted, primarily by Patriot defense systems. The remark appeared to refer to Iranian missile strikes, which Trump has referenced in recent weeks while discussing U.S. military operations and missile defense performance.
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