Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez on Friday mocked President Trump’s recent controversies involving Russia.

Perez shared a tweet from White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, who was promoting Trump’s weekly address.

"Translated from the original Russian and everything," Perez added.

Translated from the original Russian and everything. https://t.co/dPey5ZAaOG — Tom Perez (@TomPerez) March 3, 2017

During his address, which was recorded aboard the U.S.S. Gerald Ford, Trump vowed he would lift budget caps on military spending. He argued his budget "will give America’s armed forces the resources they need to achieve full and total military preparedness."

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The video of Trump donning a U.S.S. Gerald Ford hat and a Navy jacket appeared one day after he spoke aboard the new aircraft carrier, reiterating his pledge to increase America’s defense budget by $54 billion.

Trump’s military-focused appearance comes amid swirling controversy over Attorney General Jeff Sessions Jefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsTrump's policies on refugees are as simple as ABCs Ocasio-Cortez, Velázquez call for convention to decide Puerto Rico status White House officials voted by show of hands on 2018 family separations: report MORE’s ties to Russia.

Sessions on Thursday recused himself from any federal investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential race. His decision came amid bipartisan pressure over his contact with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the presidential campaign last year.

Reports emerged Wednesday that Sessions and Kislyak spoke twice in 2016 — once in July around the time of the Republican National Convention and another time via phone in September — conversations that Sessions did not disclose during his confirmation hearings in January.

Sessions, then an Alabama senator, testified under oath that he “did not have communications with the Russians." He argued Thursday that he didn't intentionally mislead his fellow senators, since he said he spoke to Kislyak as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, not as a Trump surrogate, though Democrats pounced on the revelations, calling for his resignation.

The controversy over Sessions this week came after reports last month that top aides and allies to Trump’s campaign were in recurring contact with senior Russian intelligence officials.