Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday claimed he intentionally mixed up the names of GOP rival Nikki Haley and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as he defended his verbal slip-up last month.
Democrats have been seizing on Trump’s verbal slip-ups as Biden faces questions about his mental acuity. Trump made the same claim — that he was being intentional and “sarcastic” — when he previously confused former President Barack Obama and President Joe Biden during a rally and said he was leading Obama in election polls.
“When I say that Obama is the president of our country … they go he doesn’t know that it’s Biden, he doesn’t know. But it’s very hard to be sarcastic, when I interposed, because I’m not a Nikki fan, and I’m not a Pelosi fan, and when I purposefully interposed names they said he didn’t know Pelosi from Nikki, from tricky Nikki,” Trump said at a campaign event in North Charleston, South Carolina.
He continued, “And they make a big deal out of it, I said no, no, I think they both stink, they have something in common.”
“When I say Barack Hussein Obama is the president of the United States, meaning there’s a lot of control there because the one guy can’t put two sentences together,” Trump said.
Haley questioned Trump’s mental fitness after he confused her with Pelosi when talking about the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol at a rally in January.