SARAH PALIN, FAMOUSLY, once pointed out that you could see Russia from parts of Alaska.
The former GOP vice presidential nominee was widely ridiculed for her comments – even though, as Slate pointed out, it’s actually true. (She never said she could see Russia from her house – that line was from a Tina Fey sketch).
Fast-forward by two US election cycles, and now another controversial Republican politician is getting it in the neck for his geographical knowledge.
Referring to the police shooting of a man carrying an Islamic State emblem in the French capital earlier, Donald Trump added that “Germany is a total mess”.
Sadly, maybe not…
He may well have been referring to two European incidents, and combining them in one message. A row has been brewing on Twitter over whether Trump’s third sentence referred to the events in Cologne on New Year’s Eve (we read the tweets so you didn’t have to).
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