On Sunday, President Donald Trump, a man who has repeatedly vowed to ban Muslims from entering the United States, concluded his visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by delivering a keynote address on Islam. Astonishingly, disaster did not ensue—the president dutifully ate his well-done steak and pawed uncomfortably at a crystal ball and struck a $110 billion weapons deal with his new best friends before departing for Israel on Monday. Sure, Ivanka spent her time in country soliciting a $100 million donation from Saudi officials for a nonprofit with which she is affiliated, because it's not a Trump family trip without a little wildly hypocritical grifting. But considering how many of Trump's cringe-inducing greatest hits he chose not to play, this certainly could have gone worse.

The good news is that there was only one slip-up of note, really. The bad news is that is one to which literally every single one of his hosts could rightfully take offense. From his speech:

Of course, there is still much work to be done. That means honestly confronting the crisis of Islamic extremism and the Islamists and Islamic terror of all kinds. We must stop what they're doing to inspire, because they do nothing to inspire but kill. And we are having a very profound effect if you look at what's happened recently.

The difference between "Islamic" and "Islamist" is in one syllable, but it is a significant syllable. "Islamist" specifically refers to people who believe that Islam and Islamic law should influence political systems, while "Islamic" refers to... the entire religion. This means that instead of singling out terrorists who happen to be Muslim, Trump's words lump all of the world's 1.6 billion Muslims into the same extremist camp. Of course, he spent months beating this xenophobic drum on the campaign trail, but making the same gross oversimplification while speaking to a Sharia-governed country he's visiting is a decidedly bad look.

The president's prepared remarks, it turns out, indeed used the word "Islamist." Why the discrepancy? It turns out that Trump is, according to senior White House officials, a widdle tired baby who has been through a lot and just wants to get some sleep:

On Sunday night, a senior White House official said Trump's decision to say "Islamic extremism" instead of "Islamist extremism" as written in his prepared remarks was not intentional but the product of exhaustion brought on by the rigorous travel schedule.

"Just an exhausted guy," the senior White House official said.

If you'll recall, Donald Trump sneeringly dismissed a Republican rival by calling him "low-energy" and repeatedly asserted that his general election opponent—a woman who visited 112 countries and traveled nearly one million miles during her tenure as Secretary of State—lacked the "mental and physical stamina" to be president. Now, this same man is committing elementary geopolitical gaffes because he's so spent after a single plane ride that he can't even manage to read words off a sheet of paper in front of him. At this point, we can only hope that Future President Pence proves to be a bit better at dealing with jetlag.

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