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Trump blunder fest rages on: 'You have a question for President Putin?'

Trump’s Slip Was a Signal, Not a MistakeThe Office SpeaksAt a NATO summit press conference, Donald Trump repeatedly called Volodymyr Zelenskyy by the wrong name and substituted Vladimir Putin instead. He tried to clean it up in real time, but the damage was already visible: the president of the United States publicly collapsing the distinction between an allied democratic government and the authoritarian ruler invading it.That is the only context that matters. This was not a neutral verbal stumble floating free of politics. It happened at a NATO summit, in front of reporters, with Trump…

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