At a NATO summit in Ankara on Wednesday, President Donald Trump made several verbal missteps while seated next to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, including mistakenly referring to Iran as "the Islamic Republic of Japan" and mangling the acronym for the Iran nuclear deal. In April, Trump told an interviewer that Ukraine was militarily defeated, but context from his follow‑up remarks—citing the country’s navy and ship count—indicated he was actually describing Iran, not Ukraine. These errors are part of a growing pattern, with Trump previously confusing Elon Musk’s name, misidentifying White House staff, and attributing the Afghanistan withdrawal to Barack Obama. The repeated mix‑ups have drawn attention because Trump has long highlighted rivals’ similar blunders.