French president Emmanuel Macron has been seen laughing as the leaders of Albania and Azerbaijan mock US president Donald Trump for claiming to have ended wars involving their countries. At the European Political Community meeting in Copenhagen, Macron was seen chatting with Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev.

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama was seen storming over in mock fury, and telling Macron: ‘You should make an apology … to us because you didn’t congratulate us on the peace deal that President Trump made between Albania and Azerbaijan’. The comment referenced Trump’s repeated confusion of Armenia and Albania when discussing the long-held animosity between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

In an interview with Fox News last month, Trump falsely claimed: ‘I solved wars that was unsolvable. Azerbaijan and Albania, it was going on for many, many years, I had the prime ministers and presidents in my office’. And during a press conference with UK PM Keir Starmer, he butchered the name of South Caucasus country and confused the other one entirely, saying: ‘We settled Aber-baijan and Albania’.

Rama’s joke cracked both Aliyev and Macron up. The French leader jokingly said: ‘I am sorry for that!’. The Albanian leader added: ‘[Trump] worked very hard!’ Trump did broker a deal between Azerbaijan and Armenia in August, with both Aliyev and Nikol Pashinyan, Armenia’s PM, agreeing to end decades of fighting and expand ties with Washington.

But his claim that he has ended seven wars since returning to the Oval Office by acting as a mediator is false. Trump claimed to have ended wars between Serbia & Kosovo, and Egypt & Ethiopia. Though there are long-standing tensions between these nations, they have not gone to out-and-out war in recent years.

And India trashed the White House’s claim that Trump helped de-escalate hostilities with Pakistan in May. In Trump’s latest setback on the world stage, a Hamas official has said the terror group needs more time to study the US president’s 20-point plan for peace in Gaza.

‘Hamas is still continuing consultations regarding Trump’s plan… and has informed mediators that the consultations are ongoing and need some time,’ the official said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak publicly on the matter.

Trump on Tuesday gave Hamas an ultimatum of ‘three or four days’ to accept his plan to end the nearly two-year war in the Palestinian territory.

The plan calls for a ceasefire, the release of hostages within 72 hours, Hamas’s disarmament and a gradual Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. That would be followed by a post-war transitional authority headed by Trump himself.