The president’s brain seems to be stuck in the 1980s.

There is no Russian city called Leningrad anymore, but apparently no one bothered to tell Donald Trump.

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  • Legianus@programming.devEnglish
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    23 days ago

    I don’t know, I would say after the fall of the Soviet Union its renaming was fairly common knowledge if you lived through that (even outside the former Soviet States)

      • Legianus@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        23 days ago

        Fair, but I mostly meant people who really experienced and remembered it. Aged around 50+ (like Trump).

        So forgetting that… Not a big deal. Remembering its old name first… OK, not remembering the current name after the old one - weird. And, finally, doing that constantly in many occasions, sign of mental problems.

        • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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          23 days ago

          I just asked my over 60 year old mother where Leningrad was and she had no idea. I told her it was St. Petersburg…so, just a single data point. But, it ain’t as ubiquitous as all you old farts seem to think it is :P