Trump Wanders Through Comical Riff on Walking Down Stairs During Scattershot Speech

President Donald Trump veered off into an extended riff about walking down stairs during a scattershot speech to military brass in Quantico, Virginia.

Trump followed Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s address to military leaders Tuesday morning with a lengthy speech that featured several characteristic deviations — like a poetic ode to the beautiful paper he prefers over lesser sheaves.

In one exchange, Trump went into a tangent about stairs that included a comical impression of former President Barack Obama’s energetic step-negotiating technique:

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: America is respected again as a country. We were not respected with [Joe] Biden. They looked at him falling downstairs every day. Every day, the guy’s falling downstairs.

Said, it’s not our president. We can’t have it.

I’m very careful, you know, when I walk downstairs, like I’m on stairs, like these stairs, they’re very… I walk very slowly.

Nobody has to set a record. Just try not to fall. Because it doesn’t work out well.

A few of our presidents have fallen and it became a part of their legacy. We don’t want that.

You have to walk nice and easy. You’re not having, you don’t have to set any record.

Be cool. Be cool when you walk down, but don’t, don’t bop down the stairs.

It’s the one thing with Obama, I had zero respect for him as a president, but he would bop down those stairs. I’ve never seen, da-da, da, da. Pop, pop, pop.

He’d go down the stairs, wouldn’t hold on. I said, “it’s great. I don’t want to do it.”

I guess I could do it, but eventually bad things are gonna happen. And it only takes once.

But he did a lousy job as president. A year ago, we were a dead country. We were dead. This country was going to hell.

Watch above via CNN.