President TrumpDonald TrumpRomney: 'Pretty sure' Trump would win 2024 GOP nomination if he ran for president Pence huddles with senior members of Republican Study Committee Trump says 'no doubt' Tiger Woods will be back after accident MORE referred to a Kurdish journalist as "Mr. Kurd" during a press conference on Wednesday.
"Yes, please, Mr. Kurd, go ahead" Trump said in a press conference at the United Nations in New York while calling on a journalist. The Kurds are an Iranian ethnic group in the Middle East.
Trump addresses a reporter as "Mr. Kurd" pic.twitter.com/fiYhHODYaE
— Deena Zeina Zaru (@Deena_Zaru) September 26, 2018
The journalist responded by asking Trump a question about what U.S. relations will be with the Kurds post-Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Trump replied that the U.S. gives considerable assistance to the Kurds, before saying that thousands of Kurds died fighting ISIS.
"We’re trying to help them a lot," Trump said. "Don’t forget that’s their territory. We have to help them. They fought with us. They died with us."
I just spoke with “Mr. Kurd.”
— Michael M. Grynbaum (@grynbaum) September 26, 2018
His name is Rahim Rashidi, he works for Kurdistan TV, and he is thrilled.
“I love it!” he said of Trump. “He made me happy by this sentence.”
While Trump made news on a variety of topics, including Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation battle and Deputy Attorney General Rod RosensteinRod RosensteinRosenstein: Zero tolerance immigration policy 'never should have been proposed or implemented' Comey argues Trump shouldn't be prosecuted after leaving Oval Office Trump turns his ire toward Cabinet members MORE's future, it was the "Mr. Kurd" reference that many noted on Twitter.
"Yes, please. Mr. Kurd," said the President of the United States with another Kurdish journalist.
— Jonathan Capehart (@CapehartJ) September 26, 2018
Trump referred to a reporter as "Mr. Kurd" before taking his question.
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) September 26, 2018
"Mr. Kurd." I just heard that right? If so...amazing.
— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) September 26, 2018