--- title: Trevor Noah Explains Trump Word Flub During Speech in Video description: The 'Daily Show' host explains his reasoning that Trump may have dentures, as evidenced by his slurred speech while talking Israel. canonical: https://time.com/5054309/trevor-noah-trump-dentures/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-12-07T18:19:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:49:09.317Z og:title: Here's Trevor Noah's Explanation for Trump's Slurred Speech og:description: He wouldn't be shocked if we found out he was the dude from Men in Black og:url: https://time.com/5054309/trevor-noah-trump-dentures/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7cd4d0bdfcb126a5/6988f43c4ee26262af310156/denturedonald.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: denturedonald og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's Trevor Noah's Explanation for Trump's Slurred Speech twitter:description: He wouldn't be shocked if we found out he was the dude from Men in Black twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7cd4d0bdfcb126a5/6988f43c4ee26262af310156/denturedonald.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Trevor Noah Had Jokes About President Donald Trump's Word Flub  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Dec 7, 2017 6:19 PM UTC   by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Dec 7, 2017 6:19 PM UTC During a White House press conference this week, President Trump announced a [landmark change](http://time.com/5052649/donald-trump-jerusalem-capital/) in U.S. foreign policy to Israel: recognizing Jerusalem as the capital city, [to the chagrin of critics](http://time.com/5053804/hamas-intifada-jerusalem-israel-trump/). “But that’s not all there was to this afternoon’s announcement,” noted _Daily Show_ host [Trevor Noah](http://time.com/4966892/trevor-noah-las-vegas-shooting-guns/) about Trump’s policy change. “Because as disturbing as it was today to watch Donald Trump add fuel to the Middle East conflict, it was even more disturbing to watch the conflict between Donald Trump’s teeth and his tongue.” Noah then played a clip of Trump seeming to have an odd verbal tic with some of his words, including “United States.” “He’s slurring and stumbling over the words. He sounds like he just had a drink with Bill Cosby,” Noah joked. “But we all know what’s going on here. President Trump is wearing dentures, people. This used to happen to my grandfather all the time. His dentures would start falling out, and he wouldn’t be able to finish his sentence.” He continued: “Think about it: fake teeth, fake hair, fake tan. There’s no part of his body that’s real. At this point I wouldn’t be shocked if we find out that he’s the dude from _Men in Black_.” While Noah did admit that there’s “no shame” in having dentures, he still didn’t want to let Trump off the hook. “Can you imagine how he’d feel if people started tweeting #DentureDonald?” he asked. (Naturally, people took his idea straight to Twitter and [the hashtag even trended](https://twitter.com/andylassner/status/938737602424799232).) 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