Obama gets lost while reading from his teleprompter:

Again, loses his place and has to think on his own for a few moments:

Obama recently read a bit pretty well from the TOTUS (Teleprompter Of The United States) but incorrectly read the word “Orion” as OAR-ee-un rather than oar-EYE-on. The event is explained in more detail here, which says he afterward admitted that his teleprompter messed him up:

…All terrific press for Orion, except that Obama kept pronouncing the company’s name wrong, calling it OAR-ee-on.

After finishing his remarks and talking with a few people, the president returned to the microphone and said his prepared remarks led him to pronounce the firm’s name wrong.

“I suspect this is Or-EYE-on as opposed to OAR-ee-on. Just wanted to make sure that when I’m giving you a plug, that we’ve got the right plug. It’s Or-EYE-on.”

For the opening remarks of his most recent press conference Obama was prompted (a presidential first) not by his trusty glass teleprompters but by a new JUMBO sized prompting screen, which can be seen clearly in the video feed from the White House.

This is from back during the campaign, when his teleprompter went out during a speech, but always worth revisiting:

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