President Donald Trump talked up two new executive orders on trade enforcement on Friday, but then abruptly left the Oval Office without actually signing them.

Footage of the apparent glitch showed Trump entering the room for the executive order announcement and subsequent photo opportunity that goes along with it.

But after the president gave his short speech, he promptly walked out and left the orders sitting neatly on his desk.

Vice president Mike Pence was filmed rushing after Trump and appeared to tell him he had forgotten to actually sign the orders.

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President Donald Trump had an apparent glitch Friday when he walked out of the Oval Office before signing a pair of new trade executive orders. Vice president Mike Pence was spotted rushing after Trump to remind him

Trump, however, did not come back into the Oval Office, leaving his advisers standing awkwardly near his desk.

Footage shows him briefly speaking to Pence, before staring back into the room full of reporters and White House officials and then continuing to walk away.

Pence went back to the president's desk and collected the executive orders under his arm.

Trump exited the room after a reporter started peppering him with questions about ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn.

Flynn has offered to testify to Congree about ongoing Russian investigations. Trump had earlier tweeted that Flynn 'should ask for immunity because the investigations were a 'witch hunt.'

Moments before he left the Oval Office, Trump had declared that the two orders would start a 'great revival' for US manufacturing, repeating his campaign message that trade pacts have caused factory jobs to flow overseas.

One order calls for the completion of a large-scale report that will track trade deficits country-by-country and product-by-product, while the other would improve the collection of duties on imports.

Before leaving the room, Trump said: 'Thank you everybody, you're going to see some very, very strong results very, very quickly. Thank you very much.'

Trump entered the room for the executive order announcement and subsequent photo opportunity that goes along with it, but he left moments after giving a short speech

Moments after thanking people for being there, Trump walked out of the Oval Office. His advisers and Mike Pence were left standing awkwardly as Trump reached for the door

Vice president Mike Pence was filmed rushing after Trump and appeared to tell him he had forgotten to actually sign the orders

Despite Pence telling the president he hadn't yet signed the orders, Trump did not return to the Oval Office

Among those in attendance were Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Peter Navarro, the director of the White House National Trade Council, and Steve Bannon, the president's chief strategist.

A White House official said Trump signed the measures later. It is not clear why Trump did not sign the orders in front of the media like he has done in the past.

In remarks from a podium, Trump had earlier said he was stopping the theft of American prosperity with his directives that order the government to fully collect on duties imposed on imports and begin investigations into countries accused of improper trade practices.

'They're cheaters!' Trump said of importers his administration will target. 'From now on those that break the rules will face the consequences, and there will be very severe consequences.'

The president wants his staff to identify countries and products that are contributing to America's nearly $50billion trade deficit - a protectionist warning shot to trade partners like China.

Pence was forced to walk back to Trump's desk to pick up the executive orders after Trump left the room

A White House official said Trump signed the measures later after Pence was spotted taking them from the president's desk

'We're gonna get this thing straightened out. We're gonna get these bad deals staightened out, right Peter?' he said to Navarro. 'Right Wilbur?' he said to Ross.

Pointing to his economic team, Trump declared: 'This combination over here can't be beaten.'

Trump insisted today that neither he nor his commerce secretary were going after foreign competitors to pad their own bottom lines.

'I'm not beholden to any political or financial interests. I don't care. I'm here to do a job. I'm doing a job for the American worker. I really don't care,' Trump declared.

'I'm not thinking about my business or anybody's business. Wilbur isn't. Peter isn't. No ne of the folks that we have up here are. We're doing a job.'

The only businesses the president said he's concerned about are the ones that employ average American workers.

'I work for the American people, whether you're a Democrat or Republican or belong to no party at all, you are an American. And I'm here to represent you and your family,' Trump proclaimed.