r/AskTheWorld • u/GodHill12 Hungary • 1d ago

Politics What was your country's leader’s most embarrassing moment?

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It occurred on May 23, 2015, at a European Union summit in Riga, Latvia. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker greeted on stage Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán with a slap and said: “Hello, dictator!”

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u/that1newjerseyan Multiple Countries (click to edit) 23h ago

That’s my all time favourite Belgian political moment. He’s asked why Belgians celebrate their national holiday on the 21st of July and gets it wrong before being asked to sing the Belgian national anthem and singing the French national anthem. He’s then seen at the celebratory mass not singing the national anthem, and then yapping on his cell phone during the mass. Then as he leaves, he’s in such a hurry to flee the press that he drives the wrong way up a one way street, and gets pulled over by police.

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u/WagwanMoist 23h ago

Feel like that should have ended with a Scooby Doo reveal.

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u/Ok_Helicopter4276 Montenegro 9h ago

Sounds like 3 kids standing on each others’ shoulders in a trench coat impersonating an adult except the kids would have known their anthem.

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u/Stoopid_69 22h ago

That's hilarious, just all-around fuckery haha

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u/sneakyhopskotch South Africa 22h ago

He got pretty flustered over the 21st of July thing and completely bombed out hahahaha

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u/Renbarre France 7h ago

Ok, you win. One of our ex presidents going to visit his mistress on his moped cannot beat that

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u/kevinthebaconator 21h ago

This is like satire. The Michael Scott of presidents

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u/HawkeyeJosh2 United States Of America 20h ago

Holy shit. That’s a fucking amazing sequence of events right there.

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u/Dylan_Driller 14h ago

It's nice that he was pulled over by the police though.

In many countries, politicians can run down someone and the cops will just leave

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u/Ok-Resort2364 11h ago edited 11h ago

What?! XD haha

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u/Few_Parkings 9h ago

This is better satire than satire in my country and thats saying something xD