Cameras and news networks like CNN captured the worrying moment that US president Donald Trump appeared to suffer a lapse of memory live on TV. Trump was live at the White House to host an event for Women’s History Month alongside his wife and First Lady Melania when he shouted out his former counsellor Kellyanne Conway.
However, Trump appeared to confuse Conway – who served as Senior Counsellor to the President during his first term from 2017 to 2020 – with his current press secretary Karoline Leavitt. In his speech, he thanked Conway, asking his audience: “And of course Kellyanne Conway, has anyone ever heard of her?
He went on: “She’s fantastic. She’s in there fighting. A friend of mine said, ‘You know that Kellyanne, I admire the way she goes in there and she screams at those people’ – meaning the media, because this is a man who doesn’t do very well with the media, it’s just one of those things. But thank you, Kellyanne.”
One said: “Why, why, why is the press not treating his obvious cognitive decline with even half the scrutiny they lavished on Biden?”
While a third echoed: “He’s confusing Karoline Leavitt with Kellyanne Conway? Am I hearing that correctly?”
“He thinks everyone works for him,” somebody else quipped.
A fifth viewer wrote: “What is he talking about? Does he mean Leavitt? Omg. He’s cooked.”