Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein speaks during a news conference at South Austin neighborhood Thursday, Sept. 8, in Chicago. | AP Photo Stein trolls Johnson on world leaders gaffe, also fails to name world leaders

Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein tried to capitalize on Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson flubbing a question on world leaders by listing three figures she liked.

But none of the ones she listed are leaders of their respective countries.


A day after Johnson was unable to name a world leader he admired when asked at an MSNBC town, Stein tweeted out a list of her own.

May, Stédile, and Corbyn, however, aren't technically world leaders, as none holds a top position in their country's government. May is a member of the Canadian House of Commons. Stédile is an economist and member of Brazil's Landless Rural Workers Movement, which he helped found. Corbyn is the leader of the Labour Party in Britain.

Johnson, sitting with Libertarian vice presidential nominee Bill Weld, was asked by MSNBC's Chris Matthews to "name one foreign leader that you respect and look up to." Johnson couldn't name any.

"I guess I'm having an Aleppo moment," Johnson said, referring to a previous embarrassing interview he did when he didn't recognize the name of a Syrian city at the center of the country's humanitarian crisis.

On Friday the Stein campaign issued a statement defending the names she picked.

"The people named may not be heads of state, but they are most certainly “world leaders.” They represent powerful movements for progressive change that have made an impact on history," Stein said in the statement to POLITICO. "Real world leaders, such as Martin Luther King Jr., lead from the grassroots, with the people in social movements, to fight for the greater good, inside and outside the state."