"Yes, please, Mr. Kurd, go ahead" Trump said in a press conference at the United Nations in New York while calling on a journalist.
The journalist responded by asking Trump a question about what U.S. relations will be with the Kurds post-Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (IS).
Trump replied that the U.S. gives considerable assistance to the Kurds, before saying that thousands of Kurds died fighting IS.
"We’re trying to help them a lot," Trump said. "Don’t forget that’s their territory. We have to help them. They fought with us. They died with us."
A New York Times reporter later tweeted that the journalist's name was Rahim Rashidi and that he works for Kurdistan TV based in Kurdistan Region.
"I love it," he said when asked about Trump. "He made me happy by this sentence."
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