Trump's fans argue that he was referring to Mercedes Schlapp, his former White House director of strategic communications.
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Former US President Donald Trump appeared to forget his own wife’s name in a blunder which one expert warned was a ‘gross sign’ of dementia. While speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Trump, 77, gave a standing ovation to his wife of 18 years – then referred to Melania as ‘Mercedes’. He said: ‘Oh look at that Mercedes, that’s pretty good.
As both men face questions over whether they’re simply too old to be president again, one political professor has said Trump’s cognitive decline is ‘more apparent’ than Biden’s. Paul Quirk, a political science professor at the University of British Columbia in Canada, told Newsweek how Biden’s grey hair and wrinkles have been the go-to targets for Republican attacks.
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