John Moore via Getty Images President Donald Trump found a new way to surprise the internet by giving a foreign reporter a nickname.

President Donald Trump called on a foreign news reporter by referring to him as “Mr. Kurd” during a solo news conference in New York on Wednesday.

While taking questions, Trump called on the reporter and said, “Yes, please. Mr. Kurd, go ahead.”

Trump addresses a reporter as "Mr. Kurd" pic.twitter.com/fiYhHODYaE — Deena Zeina Zaru 👩🏻‍💻 (@Deena_Zaru) September 26, 2018

The reporter, identified by The New York Times as Kurdistan TV reporter Rahim Rashidi, didn’t seem disturbed by the reference and thanked Trump for calling on him.

“Thank you very much for your time, Mr. President,” Rahim replied, before asking Trump what the U.S. relationship with Kurds will be like now that ISIS has been defeated.

The moment quickly went viral on social media as people were left in disbelief over Trump’s cavalier reference.

"Yes, please. Mr. Kurd," said the President of the United States with another Kurdish journalist. — Jonathan Capehart (@CapehartJ) September 26, 2018

I promised myself I wouldn't live tweet Trump's press conference but he just called this guy "Mr. Kurd" and wow. pic.twitter.com/6Sgq0rG6S1 — Brian Ries (@moneyries) September 26, 2018

"Mr. Kurd." He called a man Mr. Kurd. Because he has an accent and asked a question about the Kurds. @realDonaldTrump #PressConference — Michael Seitzman (@michaelseitzman) September 26, 2018

This Trump presser.

You know you should switch off but just can't.



He referred to a Kurdish reporter as 'Mr Kurd'



What is going on. — Samira Sawlani (@samirasawlani) September 26, 2018

While many people were surprised by the moment, Rashidi welcomed it, according to the Times.

“I love it,” he told Times reporter Michael M. Grynbaum after the news conference. “He made me happy by this sentence.”

I just spoke with “Mr. Kurd.”



His name is Rahim Rashidi, he works for Kurdistan TV, and he is thrilled.



“I love it!” he said of Trump. “He made me happy by this sentence.” — Michael M. Grynbaum (@grynbaum) September 26, 2018

In response to Rashidi’s question, Trump said that the U.S. and the Kurds are “trying to get along very well.”

“We’re trying to help them a lot,” the president said. “We do get along great with the Kurds. We’re trying to help them a lot.”

He added: “They fought with us. They died with us. They died. We lost tens of thousands of Kurds, died, fighting ISIS. They died for us, and with us. And for themselves. They died, but they are great people. And we don’t forget.”

In an earlier exchange, Trump asked a journalist where he was from, and the journalist identified himself as a Kurd. This prompted Trump to compliment Kurds as “great people” and “good fighters” who helped the U.S. defeat ISIS.

Trump held the news conference on Wednesday hours after a woman named Julie Swetnick publicly accused Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of being present at a party where she was gang-raped around 1982.

Swetnick is the third woman to come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh.

At the news conference, Trump told reporters that he believed all of the allegations against Judge Kavanaugh are “false.”