r/politics The Netherlands 11d ago

Paywall Trump, 79, Seems Utterly Perplexed About Where Alaska Is - The president made multiple comments suggesting he doesn’t know Alaska is part of the United States.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-seems-utterly-perplexed-about-where-alaska-is/
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u/masterofn0n3 11d ago

Because Putin keeps telling him its Russias and what Daddy Putin says must be true

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u/stealthlysprockets 10d ago

I mean technically we did buy Alaska from the Russians. So historically at least it was true. But that don’t matter now.

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u/masterofn0n3 10d ago

Well historically this is all stolen land and claims on it are asanine.