President Donald Trump managed to flub his friend and supporter Sylvester Stallone’s name while presenting him with a medallion during a Saturday evening ceremony in the Oval Office.

The ceremony—held ahead of Sunday’s Kennedy Center Honors event, which will feature tributes to each honoree as well as performances—saw the president and his handpicked honorees, including Stallone, “I Will Survive” singer Gloria Gaynor, actor Michael Crawford and rock band KISS, crowd into the Oval Office for a livestreamed presentation.

When introducing Stallone, Trump described him as “a friend of mine, a wonderful person, a really spectacular person, one of the true great movie stars there are,“ before reading out his name as “Sylvester ‘Sly’ Sallone,” omitting the t in Stallone’s surname.

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