Donald Trump's recent White House speech has sparked fresh debate about his health after he appeared to clarify the meaning of the word 'sea.'
The remarks came during a Police Week event at the White House, where Trump addressed law enforcement officers and discussed efforts to reduce fentanyl trafficking into the United States.
Speaking about drug smuggling routes, Trump said: 'Drugs coming by sea meaning coming by water. A lot of people don't know what I mean by sea. They think I mean vision. I'm talking about sea like the sea.'
A doctor who reposted the video on X described the moment as a possible 'phonemic paraphasic error,' suggesting Trump may have unnecessarily confused the homophones 'sea' and 'see.'
Phonemic paraphasia refers to a speech disturbance in which sounds or words are incorrectly substituted or rearranged during speech. Neurological experts note that the symptom can sometimes appear in conditions affecting the brain's language-processing functions, including forms of aphasia and dementia-related illnesses.
However, no formal diagnosis has been made regarding Trump, and occasional verbal mix-ups are also common in everyday speech.
