He spoke about people being forced to flee “South Africa” due to communism, when he meant to say “South America.”
He recalled getting “indicted” over allegations he improperly sought help from Ukraine, when in reality he was “impeached.”
And he was caught on camera appearing to nod off during a press conference at the White House—the same event where he momentarily froze as a GLP-1 patient collapsed behind him in the Oval Office.
“DOZY DON IS BACK!” California Governor Gavin Newsom declared in a post on X on Thursday.
Ten months into his second term, 79-year-old President Donald Trump finds himself facing the same kind of scrutiny that haunted his predecessor, Joe Biden.
Over the past 48 hours alone, the Daily Beast has counted at least a dozen times when Trump has either confused names and dates, mixed up facts, or even appeared to drift off in public, prompting the obvious question: Is the president OK?
The confusion over his first impeachment, and his South Africa/South America mix-up, took place while Trump was in Miami addressing a business forum on Wednesday.
At the same event, the president declared communism began “1,000 years ago” (which would be 1025, when Vikings roamed the Earth) and that America’s electricity grid is “200 years old” (it was mostly built in the 1950s and ’60s).
He also claimed that the U.S. economy would be “in a depression” without his tariffs (history shows that is not the case), and bragged that the U.S. has “never lost a war” (apparently forgetting the Bay of Pigs invasion against Cuba, or America’s retreats in Vietnam, Korea and Afghanistan, to name just the most prominent examples).
In some cases, it is difficult to determine whether Trump is merely confused, deliberately lying, or simply uninformed about the facts.