President Donald Trump announces two executive orders but then forgets to sign them (Picture: Getty Images)

Donald Trump announced two new executive orders on trade enforcement yesterday and even planned a whole executive order signing ceremony around it.

Except he forgot one major thing.

To actually sign them.

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Footage of the awkward moment shows the POTUS entering the Oval Office for the announcement but then promptly walking out with the unsigned orders on the desk.

Vice president Mike Pence is then left rushing after Trump to tell him that he’d forgotten to sign the orders.

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Even after Mr Pence tells him though, he doesn’t come back in, leaving his advisers standing awkwardly by his desk.



Just moments before leaving, Trump had said that the two orders would start a ‘great revival’ for US manufacturing.

Footage shows Vice president Mike Pence rushing after Trump to tell him that he’d forgotten to sign the orders.(Picture: Getty Images)

According to a White House official, Trump signed the measures later. (Picture: Getty Images)

One of them calls for the completion of a report that will track trade deficits by country and products while the other would improve the collection of duties on imports.

Trump said before leaving: ‘Thank you everybody, you’re going to see some very, very strong results very, very quickly. Thank you very much.’

According to a White House official, Trump signed the measures later.

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