Donald Trump accidentally called Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky “the new Russian president” while answering questions, according to a transcript of the remarks released by the White House.

Trump then seemingly confused Zelensky for someone replacing Putin as president of Russia (ensuing emphasis ours).

“So, in a nutshell, a whistleblower wrote a false narrative of the conversation.  Now they don’t want to talk about the whistleblower because they didn’t think I was going to release the conversation.  When I released the conversation, I blew up Schiff’s act. And just to put topping on it, the Russian — as you know, the new Russian President, a good man, made his statement.  There was no anything. There was no pressure put on him.  No anything”, - Trump said.