Donald Trump has left people seriously confused after he thanked Darth Vader during a lunch at the new 'Rose Garden Club' on Tuesday (21 October). Yes, really - the Star Wars villain got a special shoutout in the 79-year-old American president's speech.

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The event, held in the newly paved Rose Garden, was meant to address the ongoing government shutdown. Instead, it veered into a rambling monologue about Democrats, construction noise, and Star Wars villains. Around 35 minutes into his speech, Trump suddenly spotted Vought in the crowd and launched into a tangent.

It wasn't until 1999 that George Lucas officially resurrected and dramatically expanded this lost piece of his own mythology.

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