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Some people get angry every time they hear Donald Trump speak. But there's also reason to be amused. That's why.
The German newspaper "Süddeutsche Zeitung" asks in one of its columns: "Where is Qatar actually located? How many neighborhoods does Belgium consist of? And was Albania really once part of the Soviet Union, back when it was still called Yugoslavia? Learning with Trump is a lot of fun."
Some people get angry every time they hear Donald Trump speak. But there's also reason to be amused. That's why.
US President Donald Trump was in Evian, France, an idyllic village between Lake Geneva (Lac Léman) and the Alps. More precisely, Trump stayed at the Hôtel Royal, a beautiful (five-star!) inn, with a magnificent view of the lake, of course. The reason for the US president's stay in Evian was the G7 summit, that is, the meeting of the seven most industrialized countries in the world (although this is not entirely true, because the world has also changed).
When you are locked in a hotel with five other statesmen and an Italian prime minister, then, in addition to official meetings, it is often common to meet these people, whether you like it or not, in the hotel lobby, in the bar or on the balcony. So that the greats of the world do not get bored, the host (in this case the president of France Emmanuel Macron) also invited other statesmen, who represented countries with small territories but big wallets. For example: Qatar.
In a meeting with the emir of this small country, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the White House chief of staff’s extensive and deep geographical knowledge was on display. Trump described the Gulf state of Qatar as Iran’s neighbor with a shared land border. “You can walk right across the border, so you’re in a much more dangerous position,” Trump told the emir Al Thani on the sidelines of the summit. Trump was convinced that from Qatar you could “actually walk” to Iran. Really?
You pick up an old globe and look. The result of your look: Qatar is a peninsula in the Persian Gulf that is bordered by land only with Saudi Arabia. The rest of Qatar is surrounded by water. The air distance to Iran, at its narrowest point separated by the Persian Gulf, is about 200 kilometers. Meanwhile, Iran borders, among other countries, Iraq, Turkey, Afghanistan and Pakistan. To get from Qatar to Iran on foot - that is only possible if you walk on water. With Mr. Trump, that is also possible.
From this bucolic worldview, Albania (Albania) is easily confused with Armenia. Belgium is a city, not a country. The Namibia of Africa is “Nambia”. All of this has happened to Trump when he has spoken about certain regions of the world. As the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” reassures its readers, it is not worth getting angry at the linguistic-geographical slips of the American president, because this does nothing but raise blood pressure. Things should be seen positively.
What Trump says is just a call to critically examine our knowledge, which often turns out to be half-knowledge.
If we start from his monumental statement that Belgium is a city, then what are Wallonia or Flanders? And in general, the question may be asked why news anchors sometimes call a country somewhere near Qatar Iran, sometimes Iraq.
Mr. Trump is unpredictable, and not only in geography. For several days now, Switzerland has been preparing for the signing of the cease-fire agreement (although one must be careful with the word “ceasefire”) at the Bürgenstock Hotel, high above the beautiful Lake Lucerne. Will Trump or his deputy JD Vance come to sign the document? Official Switzerland would like Trump to come, but Vance is more likely to come - so said the professional coffee cup readers. And some journalists.
However, the Swiss Alpine and urban people are serious people, with a serious government and a serious army: 2,000 soldiers surrounded the Bürgenstock Hotel to secure the signing ceremony. Guests - including American tourists - who had booked rooms were sadly informed that their reservations had been cancelled due to the expected ceremony in honor of peace between the US and Iran. One couple was told that their wedding could not even take place.
Mr. Trump is unpredictable. You wake up on Thursday morning, June 18, 2026, and the news is this: President Donald Trump has signed the 'memorandum of understanding' with Iran, but not at the Bürgenstock (the hotel belongs to a Qatari sovereign wealth fund firm).
The signing took place at the Palace of Versailles, in the presence of French President Emmanuel Macron, who had invited Trump to a big, very big banquet in honor of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the USA. In Tehran, the agreement was signed by the President of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian. They call this a virtual, digital signature.
And now? The Swiss soldiers can return home, because it's likely that that big ceremony at the Bürgenstock Hotel won't take place at all.
Mr. Trump is unpredictable.
Only one thing is certain: tonight Switzerland plays against Bosnia.
What remains? That promise of some global and local political geniuses that freedom for the people of Iran is coming (when the American-Israeli attacks on the Iranian regime began). What is coming, in fact, is even greater freedom for the regime. The American and Arab media have published the signed document. There are many promises in it, among them: Trump vows to lift sanctions on Iran and allow the regime to access its billions blocked in the Western world. A serious Swiss newspaper wrote that the document reads like a capitulation by the US. Importantly: Qatar and Iran are bordered by land. If not, then we walk on water.
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