No one at the White House quite knows how to spin President Donald Trump’s recent and increasingly frequent string of senior moments — least of all White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.

After declaring a “public safety emergency” to deploy troops against street crime in Washington, D.C., Monday, the 79-year-old president inexplicably told reporters—twice—that he was “going to Russia on Friday.”

In reality, Trump’s upcoming meeting with Vladimir Putin isn’t in Russia. It’s in Alaska. He later corrected himself, clarifying that he would not be leaving the U.S. for the summit.

But even after Trump’s own concession, Leavitt refused to acknowledge the blunder. In fact, she took it one step further, floating the idea that Trump may soon become the first U.S. president to visit Russia

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