President Donald Trump veered off topic during a speech to military commanders with a brief song-and-dance about walking carefully down stairs.

The president joined Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who ordered hundreds of top U.S. military leaders to leave their posts around the world for an unprecedented gathering at a Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia, where Trump spoke for nearly an hour and 15 minutes about a variety of topics – including launching several attacks against former President Joe Biden.

"These were the Washington generals, and I call them the television generals, but 'Raising' [Gen. Dan] Caine did it in four weeks, took out 100 percent of the ISIS caliphate," he said.

"As a result of these actions and many others since my inauguration, we're witnessing the triumphant return of peace through strength. We have great peace through strength, and America is respected as a country, and we were not respected with Biden. They looked at him falling down stairs, and every day that guy is falling downstairs, and they said it is not our president and we cannot have it."

"I'm very careful when I walked down stairs, and I go down stairs, like these stairs, I walk very slowly," he added. "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 part of their legacy – we don't like that. You do not have to set any record. You have to walk nice and easy, you don't have to set any record. Be cool, be cool when you walk down, but don't bop down the stairs."

He then went on to praise another predecessor, Barack Obama, for his nimble negotiations of stairways — punctuated with some rhythmic scat singing and some dance moves.

"That is one thing with Obama," Trump said. "I have zero respect for him as a president but he would bop down those stairs [like] I've never seen – da-da, da-da, da-da, bop, bop, bop. He'd go down the stairs, wouldn't hold on, and I said, that's great. I wouldn't want to do it. I guess I could do it, but eventually bad things are going to happen, and it only takes once. But he did a lousy job as president."

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