Trump aides aware of president's repeated gaffe - but are 'afraid to correct him': report

[LetMyPeopleVote]

trump is too senile/stupid to know the difference between “excursion” and “incursion." trump's aides know the difference but they do NOT dare correct trump. Every time that trump uses the term "excursion" instead of incursion, I laugh. Again, trump is too senile to sue the right term and his aides are too scared to correct trump.

Trump aides aware of president’s repeated gaffe – but are ‘afraid to correct him’: report

— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-03-14T16:00:13Z

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2676102711

President Donald Trump has been ridiculed in recent days for repeatedly referring to his administration’s military siege on Iran as an “excursion,” a potential mix-up with the word “incursion,” but according to a new report from Zeteo, his aides are well aware of the blunder but refuse to correct him out of fear.

“I’m not telling him,” a Trump administration official told Zeteo on Friday, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

The word “excursion,” as explained by MS NOW’s Jonathan Lemire on Friday, generally refers to “a short, organized pleasure trip, à la snorkeling,” whereas an “incursion” is a “sudden, often hostile entrance or invasion into a territory or place,” a far more appropriate term to describe the Trump administration’s operation in Iran.

And yet, despite the obvious blunder, Trump officials told Zeteo that correcting the president would be “a fool’s errand,” and that “doing so would likely get them yelled at,” the outlet reported.

“We say ‘incursion,’ the boss says ‘excursion.’ It’s not a big deal,” a second Trump official told Zeteo, also speaking on the condition of anonymity.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. The people paid to advise him are either too afraid to step in or are just fine with him looking like a fool.

Trump keeps calling his war on Iran an “excursion,” like it’s a sightseeing trip. You can almost hear the briefing where someone said “incursion,” and he just ran with the wrong word.

The people paid to advise him are either too afraid to step in or are just fine with him looking like a fool.

— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) 2026-03-13T13:28:44.809Z

[calimary]

10. Oh look at that photo of trump.

He’s making his trumpet face again.

[wnylib]

14. Blowing out hot air instead of music.

[dpibel]

2. "Bigly"

I've long been of the opinion that The Horrible Man's attempted rendering of "big league" never got corrected because no one was brave enough to tell him.

Of course it's equally likely that someone, or many people, did tell him what he was trying to say and he, thus, was compelled to continue doing it wrong. Because that is, after all, how he rolls.

[msongs]

3. he means to say excursion. nothing to correct here nt

[area51]

4. Let me guess:

Aides are also too afraid to correct #PEDOnald when he thinks that anyone requesting asylum in the US means they came from an insane asylum.

[leftstreet]

5. Aging narcissists can be viscious

They can't take the slightest criticism even with all their faculties

[Skittles]

6. it's called "being a Trump whore"

yup

[Cha]

7. Nazi boy miller & Leavitt Fuckery too "scared"? nt

[calimary]

8. "We say 'incursion,' the boss says 'excursion'."

But DON’T call the whole thing off.

[Cha]

9. IT IS A "BG DEAL".. YOU'RE "BOSS" IS A FUKCING IDIOT.

[BidenRocks]

11. What a bunch of kosplay bros!

Ass smooching, sycophantic, no cojones, cowards!

You all look ridiculous in your Shaq shoes!

Nuremberg calls!

[AZ8theist]

12. If this was Biden...

The mouth breathers on Reich wing media would be howling 24x7

[Prairie Gates]

13. Gaffe? Every word out of his mouth confirms that he's certifiable

Gaffe? Show me three consecutive sentences out of his mouth that wouldn't have caused an impeachment level scandal twenty years ago.

He's a babbling demented old fool on a good day.

Lord help us!

[LudwigPastorius]

15. New executive order to be issued...

"Excursion" now means "incursion".

"Incursion" now means giving support, confidence, or hope to someone Usage: "Billy Bob said he wuz too drunk to pull up the trotlines and check for fish, but I started incursion him to get in the boat anyway."