of the parker experience.”

Stephen J. Smith is a reporter based in New York. He has written about transportation, infrastructure and real estate for a variety of publications including New York Yimby, where he is currently an editor, Next City, City Lab and the New York Observer.been adopted by a number of news outlets, dropped the definite article in 1991, in accordance with Ukraine's independence referendum that same year. Critics of the "the" argue it belittles Ukraine's status as a sovereign state, reducing back to its status as a former Soviet territory.

Some news outlets use “the Ukraine” frequently, as did then-President Barack Obama occasionally in the aftermath of the 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula by Russia.

In the midst of sparring with reporters during his trip last week to the United Nations, Trump also parroted unsubstantiated claims about the Bidens and their work in “the Ukraine.”

But Monday's reminder from the Ukrainian Embassy came shortly after a morning tweet from the man whose presidency has been dealt a major blow by his relations with Ukraine.

Trump,