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The 45th and 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump is a name known across the world, just as he would have it. Trump’s surprisingly successful political career, however, does not change the fact that he’s made a lot of gaffes—yet he's still not afraid to stay in the limelight!Let's take a walk down memory lane. From "covfefe" to "bigly," click through to see more of Trump’s funniest political and social blunders.

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In August 2024, during a speech in Michigan, Trump mistakenly referred to Kamala Harris as "the President." This slip led to a wave of reactions and raised questions about whether Donald Trump was too old to run for president.

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During an interview with the TV station Telemundo, Trump mixed up the age of his 18-year-old son Barron, saying: "He’s pretty young, I will say, he’s 17."

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In March 2024, during a campaign rally in Richmond, Virginia, his supporters went silent after Trump confused Joe Biden with Barack Obama. “Shortly after we win the presidency, I will have the horrible war between Russia and Ukraine settled. I know them both very well, and we will restore peace through strength. Get that war settled. It’s a bad war. And Putin has so little respect for Obama that he’s starting to throw around the nuclear word.”

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On May 1 at a rally in Nebraska, Trump appeared to mix up the names of two candidates running for Senate in Ohio in a closely contested GOP primary set for May 3. "We've endorsed Dr. Oz. We've endorsed JP, right? JD Mandel, and he's doing great. They're all doing good," he said, combining the names of Josh Mandel and JD Vance, the latter of whom he actually endorsed. A few moments later, as he continued to talk about his endorsements, Trump added: "I think Vance is doing well." It was just the weekend prior that he appeared with Vance at a rally in Delaware, Ohio.

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Following the Kansas City Chiefs' victory over the San Francisco 49ers during the Super Bowl, Trump took to Twitter to congratulate the winning team for representing the "Great State of Kansas." The only problem is that the Kansas City Chiefs are based in the state of Missouri. The tweet was quickly taken down, but it was too late, as it had already been immortalized on the Internet.

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Pointing to gains in the stock market, Trump asked Twitter users how their "409K's" were doing. Of course, he meant their "401(k)" retirement funds.

▲After Melania Trump underwent kidney surgery that had her hospital-bound for five nights, Trump took to Twitter to officially welcome her home. This could have been a sweet move, except that he called her "Melanie," as reported by the Guardian.

▲This one became an instant classic. When Donald Trump ended a tweet with this code-like word back in May 2017, he caused quite the stir on the Internet. To this day, no one knows exactly what "covfefe" means.

▲"It is appropriate and proportionate to measure—and other measures taken by Iran to terminate its illicit nuclear program." That's what it says on the official White House script at least, but in reality he just dragged that sentence into incomprehensibility. Watch the disaster on MSNBC.

▲"This is an island sitting in the middle of an ocean—and it's a big ocean, a really, really big ocean," Trump said as reported by The Independent.

▲"Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who's done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice." Trump insinuated that Douglass, a well-known abolitionist who was born a slave, was still alive. He died in 1895.

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Trump forgot to place his hand on his heart while the National Anthem was being played. As The Independent pointed out, Melania Trump had to remind him to do so.

▲House Majority Whip Steve Scalise was hospitalized for months after getting shot and when he returned to the Capitol, Trump welcomed him with a joke, naturally: "It’s a hell of a way to lose weight, Steve."

▲"She was going to beat, she was favorite to win, and she got 'schlonged,' she lost." The Washington Post even ran a linguistic investigation on the word "schlonged."

▲He took to Twitter to call one of the most dangerous leaders in the world a "Little Rocket Man."

▲"They [parents] work two jobs and sometimes three jobs. They sacrifice every day for the furniture and — future of their children," he said at the 2017 Values Voter Summit.

▲While officially recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, Trump slurred a few words, leading some to believe his dentures were falling out as he spoke. Watch 'The Late Show' host Stephen Colbert comment on the "United Shursh" moment.

▲It seems like the current administration could do with an editor. In May of 2018, the White House released a statement regarding President Trump's visit to Israel, as reported by the New York Daily News. It said that one of the trip's goals was to "promote the possibility of lasting peach" in the region.

▲It's often said that smart people don't have to tell everyone how smart they are in order to prove it. Trump disagrees. He tweeted: "Throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart."

▲"And I watched our police and our firemen down on 7/11..."

▲"We’re going to start winning again, and we’re gonna win bigly, believe me."

▲"Women have been truly underrepresentative—really, I guess you could say, underrepresented for many, many decades," Trump said as per the US Government Publishing Office. "Underrepresentative" – add that to the Trump vocab.

▲Trump said, according to White House remarks: "Very importantly, air traffic controllers will highly… and this will be highly valued. These are highly valued people." Highly, highly, highly.

▲"He’s not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured." The late Senator McCain, a former Navy pilot, was tortured during the Vietnam War.

▲Another tortured teleprompter moment in which he got the word wrong and pretended that's what he meant—this time about American soldiers: "Through their lives—and though their lives were cut short..." Watch the flub on MSNBC.

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"I left Texas, and I left Florida, and I left Louisiana, and I went to Puerto Rico, and I met with the president of the Virgin Islands," Trump said as reported by CNN. We think he means the governor, right? Considering he himself is the president of the Virgin Islands.

▲He posted on Twitter, according to screen grabs by Sputnik: "Our great country has been divided for decades. Sometimes you need protest in order to heel, and we will heel, and be stronger than ever before," Autocorrect can be a jerk sometimes.

▲"Authority and authoritarian powers seek to collapse the values, the systems and alliances that prevented conflict and tilted the world toward freedom since World War II." Which authority? God? According to Politico, he also said major parts of the world "are going to hell."

▲After ranting for a while about real-estate developer William Levitt, the US President told the audience that Levitt engaged in "interesting activities" on his yacht. "I won’t go anymore than that because you're Boy Scouts, so I’m not going to tell you what he did," Trump said. "Should I tell you? Should I tell you?" Parents would strongly disagree, as the BBC reported.

▲When the US President met German Chancellor Angela Merkel for the first time, he tried to break the ice by making a very indelicate joke about them both having been wiretapped by President Obama. She looked slightly baffled, as shown by the Guardian.

▲Trump's nemesis Robert Mueller was appointed the Special Counsel for the Department of Justice. But the US President seems to struggle with getting Mueller's title right, since he spelled Special Council (three times) in a tweet. Of course, Merriam-Webster didn't forgive the mistake—they made sure to explain the difference between the two words to the entire Twittersphere.

▲One of Trump's most infamous Twitter typos happened when he described China seizing a US Navy drone as an "unpresidented" act. He then corrected it to "unprecedented," because the Internet has no chill.

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In 2017, the White House didn't celebrate the Islamic holy month for the first time in almost 20 years. According to the Guardian, he was heavily criticized for his decision to break the tradition.