Overview

• At a Mount Vernon dinner carried by C‑SPAN, the president claimed he stopped a war between Armenia and Cambodia, a conflict that does not exist.
• Coverage says the remark likely conflated Armenia’s tensions with Azerbaijan and separate border clashes involving Cambodia and Thailand.
• In July, fighting on the Cambodia–Thailand border left 43 dead and displaced more than 300,000 people before a July 28 ceasefire that reporting credits to calls by U.S. officials and Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim.
• In August, Azerbaijan’s Ilham Aliyev and Armenia’s Nikol Pashinyan met at the White House and signed an agreement related to their longstanding dispute.
• The gaffe followed recent slips in which he cited Albania instead of Azerbaijan, and it drew widespread mockery on Reddit and X.