Finland's golf practice was in vain, as Trump didn't recognize him
In the meeting between Zelenskyy and Trump, Europe had an embarrassing moment.
Many people may have noticed that among the European officials accompanying Zelenskyy on his visit to the United States, there were not only the traditional "three giants" of Europe - the leaders of the UK, France, and Germany, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and Finnish President Alexander Stubb.
Here, we mainly talk about Finnish President Stubb. The reason why Stubb also came to the United States with Zelenskyy is mainly because Europe believes that Stubb has a good personal relationship with Trump, and the two once played golf together (Figure 2).
Therefore, Europe believed that they could get close to Trump through Stubb's "golf buddy relationship," but what the European officials did not expect was that during the meeting that day, even when Stubb sat in front of Trump, Trump didn't know who he was, and kept asking where the Finnish president was (Figure 3).
This can only be said that Stubb's efforts to practice golf were all for nothing. According to the Wall Street Journal, Stubb connected with Trump through U.S. Congressman Lindsay Graham during the Munich Security Conference in February this year. After learning that Stubb also played golf, Trump invited him to play at some point.
Therefore, Stubb, who hadn't played golf for years, took up the club again to please Trump, and finally went to Mar-a-Lago in late March to play golf with Trump.
Europe believed that Stubb had a good personal relationship with Trump because Trump once asked Stubb whether Putin was trustworthy, which seemed to create a misunderstanding among Europe and Stubb that "Trump was no longer familiar with Putin," completely ignoring the fact that Trump actually regarded Putin as an idol.
Original source: www.toutiao.com/article/1840877473175620/
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