Critics leapt on it this week when President Joe Biden verbally confused the names of his two predecessors, which the president explained as a "Freudian slip."
So what exactly happened? While discussing former President Barack Obama, Biden used the words "President Trump" instead.
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Biden was describing his role in the 2009 auto-industry bailouts when he mistakenly referred to the former president instead of his old boss.
"In 2009, during the so-called Great Recession, the president asked me to be in charge of managing that piece — then-President Trump," Biden said in a speech near Allentown, Pa.
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"Excuse me, Freudian slip, that was the last president," Biden continued. "He caused — anyway, President Obama, when I was vice president. The American auto industry, remember, was on the rocks?"
It is not common for Biden to say his predecessor's name, as he has barely mentioned him following the Capitol riot, The New York Post reported. Biden will even go as far as to refer to Trump as "the former guy."
Although at a NATO conference in June, Biden slammed "President Trump's phony populism."
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In Virginia last weekend, at a rally for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe, Biden said to the crowd that he "whipped Donald Trump in Virginia, and so will Terry."
With Biden's slip, many House Republicans are calling for the 78-year-old president to take a cognitive test, which they say is necessary due to gaffes and verbal fumbles. Former White House doctor Ronny Jackson leads the group, the Post reported.