Donald Trump is making headlines for misgendering two foreign leaders in consecutive press conferences this week. The President seemingly assumed that Ireland’s Catherine Connolly and Venezuela’s Delcy Rodriguez were men.
Donald Trump makes same mistake about two female leaders
On Monday, March 16, during a luncheon with the Kennedy Center board members, Donald Trump made a faux pas while referring to the acting Venezuelan President, Delcy Rodriguez. The U.S. President addressed his relationship with Venezuela two months after authorizing the military operation to capture their longtime president, Nicolás Maduro. Notably, Rodriguez is currently serving as Venezuela’s acting president.
“Venezuela, who’s been great, by the way, the relationship with Venezuela has been fantastic,” Trump said. “The president has done a really good job. We get along with him really well,” the POTUS added, mistaking Rodriguez for a man.
The following day, Trump made a similar blunder when he referred to Catherine Connolly, the President of Ireland. Amid the recent St. Patrick’s Day celebration at the White House on Tuesday, March 17, with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin, Trump responded to Connolly’s recent statement about him (via People).
During the event, a reporter asked Trump, “The Irish president has said your war against Iran is illegal and an attack on international law.” The U.S. President replied, saying, “Look, he’s lucky I exist. That’s all I can say,” misgendering Connolly as a man.
Trump continued, “If you’re going to allow countries that are sick and demented… to have nuclear weapons… Everybody in the whole world should be very thankful, and I’m disappointed in NATO.” He added, “I’m very disappointed, I’m disappointed in a couple other countries too, but they should be very thankful that this group of people feels the way we do.”
As of writing, Donald Trump has not publicly addressed the misgendering incidents.
Originally reported by Namrata Ghosh on Mandatory.
