President Donald Trump announced a new—and incorrect—way to pronounce a common biblical name on Monday.
Speaking ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Monday, Trump, 79, paused before unveiling his 20-point plan to end Israel’s war in Gaza to brag about his loyalty to Israel.
“No president in history has been a greater friend to the state of Israel than I have. In addition to negotiating the Abraaaham accords,” he said, mispronouncing the name of the 2020 agreement between Israel and several majority-Muslim nations that he regularly touts as his own achievement.
Trump then paused to explain that his pronunciation was, in fact, the correct one. “I like to say it that way because the real people, that’s what they call it, Abraaaham,” he said, repeating h