Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern said she probably shouldn’t have shared the story of a meeting with US President Donald Trump at the recent APEC summit in Vietnam with her friends, the Guardian reports.
"It was a bit of a funny yarn, something that I don’t want to cause a diplomatic incident over… I think I should never have recounted the story," Ardern remarked.
Ardern’s remarks come after her friend, comedian Tom Sainsbury, mentioned during an interview that the prime minister told him that US President Donald Trump may have mistaken her for Canadian PM Justin Trudeau’s wife, and that Trump is apparently "not as orange in real life."
During an interview on TVNZ1 however the prime minister insisted that when she was formally introduced to Trump he seemed to know who she was, claiming that the whole case of mistaken identity was apparently observed by a third party, though she did not reveal the identity of this person.
