Recently, Donald Trump has repeatedly mixed up the countries of Albania and Armenia when referring to an August peace meeting at the White House between the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan. That mix-up repeats one from one hundred years ago: in "Mrs. Dalloway", the 1925 novel by Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), Clarissa Dalloway learns about the Armenian genocide from her husband Richard, a politician, and can't keep the name of the people subject to Turkish terror straight: "Hunted out of existence, maimed, frozen, the victims of cruelty and injustice (she had heard Richard say so over and over again)—no, she could feel nothing for the Albanians, or was it the Armenians?” (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 19 September 2025)

Mixing up Albania and Armenia: Donald Trump and Virginia Woolf’s Clarissa Dalloway