During a Fox & Friends interview on Tuesday, President Donald Trump struggled to remember the name of the ocean that separates the U.S. from Russia. While talking about his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump said: “You know we have an ocean that’s separating us, right? A thing called… an ocean. A big, beautiful ocean.” He did not name the Pacific Ocean, which is the world’s largest body of water.
Trump, who is 79, has been criticized for other “senior moments” where he confused locations. Last week, he even said twice that he was going to Russia, when in fact his meeting with Vladimir Putin was in Anchorage, Alaska. His press secretary later tried to explain the mix-up.
The Alaska coast and Russia’s eastern coast are separated by just 55 miles of ocean, the same region where Trump met Putin on Friday. That meeting ended without a peace deal for Ukraine.
Fox News hosts let Trump continue past his slip, and he went on to blame President Joe Biden for the war in Ukraine. Trump claimed Biden gave Ukraine $100 billion “up front,” though his own administration has continued billions in military aid, including $6.2 billion in weapons this year.
Trump has often promised that he could end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours, but on Monday he admitted it has been harder than expected, saying: “I have ended six wars. I thought maybe this would be the easiest one, and it’s not.”
The White House declined to comment on Trump’s latest mistake, saying they would not answer “stupid questions about oceans.”