Joe Biden (right) and Donald Trump — who were president and president-elect, respectively, at the time — sit awkwardly together in the Oval Office in November 2024.

Here’s hoping a war of words doesn’t escalate into an actual war.

US President Donald Trump expressed outrage in the wee hours of Monday morning after Dmitry Medvedev, the former president of Russia, needled him on social media with a comparison to former US President Joe Biden.

Earlier in July, Trump said he would impose “secondary tariffs” against Russia if the country’s current president, Vladimir Putin, did not agree to a ceasefire deal with Ukraine within 50 days. But on Monday, Trump made the impromptu announcement that the two countries, which have been embroiled in a three-year war,........

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