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The President Who Forgot Who The President Is
Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office today and confidently referred to the governor of California as the President of the United States.
Let’s just start with the baseline reality here, because I feel like we are all being slowly marinated in such a thick brine of daily insanity that the national brain has begun to treat things that should set off every alarm bell from Bangor to Bakersfield as if they’re just another Tuesday in the clown-car constitutional collapse.
The sitting president of the United States sat behind the Resolute Desk today.
The Resolute Desk.
That big historical slab of wood where Franklin D. Roosevelt steered the country through war and depression, where John F. Kennedy stared down nuclear annihilation, where Ronald Reagan faced off with the Soviets, where Bill Clinton signed laws that shaped a generation, and where Barack Obama expanded healthcare— a desk that has seen more actual leadership than whatever the hell is happening there now.
And this man, surrounded by reporters, flanked by his vice president, in that room every American can picture without even trying, referred to the governor of California as the president of the United States.
Not as a joke.
Not as a quick stumble.
Not as a “sorry folks I meant governor.”
No.
He said it the way a man says something he fully believes in his soul, like somewhere in the attic of his brain a tiny janitor has replaced the label on the big mental filing cabinet that says President and now it reads:
GAVIN NEWSOM, APPARENTLY.
And everyone just… kept going.
The press pool reacted the way people react when a grandparent calls the microwave the television.
Just gentle murmurs.
Concerned nodding.
Nobody grabbing the emergency lever labeled “THIS IS FUCKING ALARMING.”
Which brings me to my favorite part of the American political double-standard circus.
Because if Joe Biden had done this…
If Joe Biden had sat behind that same desk and said:
“President Gavin Newsom called me earlier…”
Fox News would build an entire theme park of outrage around that clip.
They would run it on loop until the sun explodes.
Not just a loop.
A super-loop.
A slow-motion loop.
A zoom-in loop.
A loop where the chyron is the size of a Buick:
BIDEN DOESN’T KNOW WHO THE PRESIDENT IS
Sean Hannity would be standing in front of a touchscreen like a manic weatherman mapping the hurricane of cognitive decline.
“Let’s run that again.”
And again.
And again.
You would hear that clip in dentist offices.
You would hear that clip in gas stations.
You would hear that clip playing faintly from a passing Uber driver’s radio in 2036.
But Donald Trump can sit there today and casually assign the presidency to Gavin Newsom like he’s rearranging chairs at a wedding reception—and large parts of the media, and especially Fox News, are treating it like it didn’t even happen.
Not a chyron.
Not a meltdown.
Not a breathless panel of neurologists pointing at a touchscreen like it’s a murder board.
Just… nothing.
So here’s a radical idea:
Go watch it.
Seriously. Watch it with your own eyes.
Watch the current president of the United States sitting behind the Resolute Desk, surrounded by reporters, flanked by his vice president—look straight ahead and refer to the governor of California as the president of the United States.
Not once.
Not as a joke.
Not with a correction.
Watch how completely, confidently committed he is to it.
And then I would love—truly, sincerely, from the bottom of my exhausted American soul—for every MAGA diehard, every “Biden was too old,” every “he’s not mentally fit” keyboard neurologist to explain to the rest of us what the hell they think they’re looking at.
Because the optics here are not subtle.
The optics are a man sitting in the most powerful office on earth, behind one of the most historically significant desks in the world, attempting to insult someone else’s cognitive ability… while actively demonstrating that he does not appear to know who the president of the United States is.
And just to make this moment even more grotesquely perfect—like a satire writer got drunk and decided to see how far they could push plausibility before the editor quit— the entire point of what he was saying was to mock Gavin Newsom for having a learning disability.
Dyslexia.
Something Newsom has been open about. Something he’s talked about working through.
So let’s just slow this down for one second and really appreciate the full, cinematic stupidity of what’s happening here:
The sitting president of the United States is seated behind the Resolute Desk— attempting to ridicule another man’s cognitive ability… while confidently, repeatedly, completely unbothered by reality, referring to that same man as the president of the United States.
Not a slip.
Not a stumble.
Not a quick correction.
A full, committed, plant-your-flag, this-is-the-hill-I’m-dying-on declaration.
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dbentley666 — 2 weeks ago(March 17, 2026 11:14 PM)
Donald Trump accidentally called Gavin Newsom “the president of the United States” whilst he was insulting his intelligence.
Speaking in the Oval Office on Monday (16 March), Mr Trump said that the Governor of California’s dyslexia makes him not fit for the White House. “I think a president should not have learning disabilities, OK?”
Mr Trump then said: “The president of the United States, Gavin Newscum [Trump’s insulting nickname for Newsom] admitted that he has learning disabilities, dyslexia… everything about him is dumb.”
This is Bongo-level self-pwnage!!!!!!