Donald Trump appeared to have difficulty reading from a handwritten note. This happened during a recent Oval Office executive order signing. The apparent faux pas occurred when the president responded to a question about the White House ballroom project.
Donald Trump was spotted seemingly struggling to read a handwritten note
U.S. District Judge Richard recently ordered a temporary pause on the construction of the ballroom. A reporter asked Donald Trump about the halt during a press briefing on Tuesday. The president replied, “Basically, he’s saying I need congressional approval.” He referenced a sheet of paper with notes written with a black marker. Trump added, “I see right here, I just wrote it down, he said we need congressional approval.”
However, Trump seemed to struggle with his writing while trying to explain the temporary pause in the project. “He also said, but this is positive for us, I’m allowed — meaning, we are allowed — to continue building as necessary, to let’s see… What is that?” he said. “To cover the safety and security of the White House and its grounds,” Trump added.
With multiple fumbles in between, Trump continued, “We have a drone-proof roof — and it talks about the president and his staff — well, we’re gonna have a lot of bulletproof glass. This has the highest level of, in fact, they call this graph… this, uh, grass, this, uh, the glass, uh… It’s bulletproof, and it’s ballistic proof.”
When asked for a comment about the apparent faux pas, White House spokesman Davis Ingle stated, “President Trump is the sharpest, most accessible, and energetic president in American history, and he is working around the clock to make our country greater than ever before.”
Trump had previously slammed the federal judges’ decision to temporarily block the construction of the White House ballroom. He wrote in a Truth Social post on April 1, “The National Trust for Historic Preservation sues me for a Ballroom that is under budget, ahead of schedule, being built at no cost to the Taxpayer, and will be the finest Building of its kind anywhere in the World,” the President penned, adding, “Doesn’t make much sense, does it?”
