President hosts a free spelling lesson in front of three networks.

The President of the United States stood in front of a camera this week and walked the country through, slowly and with conviction, the difference between sea and see. Then he held the moment. Like he had just solved cold fusion on live television.

Buddy. We covered this in second grade. Mrs. Pennington had a chart.

The clip ran around the internet inside an hour. The Governor of California’s press office, which apparently has nothing better to do at nine in the morning, fired off a little joke about cognitive testing. A morning cable show turned it into a running gag. A conservative anti-incumbent group reposted the footage and labeled the speaker the dumbest president in history.

Everybody got their dunk in. The internet ate.

You ever notice how every time the most powerful person on earth says something that would get a sixth grader sent to the office, the whole country acts surprised? “Did you see what he said?” Yes hon, I saw it. I see it every Tuesday and Thursday. I’m starting to see it in my sleep.

The thing is, this isn’t even an interesting kind of dumb. It’s not a dramatic confession or a juicy slip-of-the-tongue. It is just a man at a microphone, in front of three networks, explaining to grown adults that two homophones do not have the same spelling. Fourteen minutes long. With pauses for emphasis.

Whole thing feels cursed.

Funny how that works.