Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar Assad joked about President Trump during a meeting in Damascus.
Putin visited Syria, an ally of Iran, days after the United States killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike earlier this month.
The television channel Russia-1 aired a video this week showing a short conversation between Putin and Assad during their visit to the Orthodox Church of the Virgin Mary in Damascus. Assad told Putin about the apostle Paul, who converted to Christianity at the gate of Damascus, according to a translation by Axios.
“If Trump arrives along this road, everything will become normal with him too,” Assad said.
The two leaders laughed, and Putin told Assad he should invite Trump to Damascus.
“It will be repaired,” Putin said. “Invite him. He will come.”
Асад о дороге в Дамаск, на которой стал христианином апостол Павел: Если Трамп по этой дороге проедет, сразу станет с ним все нормально.
Путин: Пригласите его, он приедет.
Асад: Я готов.
Путин: Я ему передам pic.twitter.com/Gkkvd0KR1J— Дмитрий Смирнов (@dimsmirnov175) January 12, 2020
The video surfaced about a month after another video showed world leaders mocking Trump at a NATO meeting in London.
“He was late because he takes a 40-minute press conference at the top. You just watch his team’s jaws drop to the floor,” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
Trump called Trudeau “two-faced” and said Macron was “a pain in the ass” in response to the viral video.
