People making a big deal about President Trump saying “Toledo” when he meant “Dayton” need to take a chill (uh, what's the thing you swallow? Whatever that word is. Not lozenge but, you know? Oh yeah, that’s it) chill pill. And get a life.

There is a recent epidemic of breathless analysts and politicians overreacting to political figures momentarily misplacing or misstating words. When former special counsel Robert Mueller suddenly couldn’t think of the word “conspiracy” when describing the legal term for “collusion,” people reacted as if he had wandered into heavy traffic while muttering about the pet chicken he had as a six-year-old. This, even though every other part of the explanation Mueller was giving made perfect sense.

Likewise, when former Vice President Joe Biden warned in the last debate against “another eight years” of Trump, when he obviously meant four years, the cry went up that maybe Biden really is too old after all. Then, even before Trump confused the two Ohio cities, Biden referred to the shootings in El Paso and in Ohio as having been in Houston and in Michigan. And, famously, then-Vice President Dan Quayle was pilloried for years for misspelling “potato” even though he was reading a flash card that provided the wrong spelling.

Now comes Trump confusing two intermediate-sized cities in Ohio. Just about every news site in the United States posted an entire, separate story on the goof, including the Washington Examiner.

The reactions are absurd. In everyday life, people of all ages suddenly forget or transpose words or names frequently, without it indicating dementia, drunkenness, or other diminished mental capacity. You can be talking to your wife about a guy named Tim Thompson when you run into someone you know well named Tom Johnson, and your brain prompts you to call him John or Tim even though you know that’s not right, so you mumble and fake it until, two minutes later, your synapses send the right message.

I’ve seen several political candidates “lose their train of thought” in televised debates, only to go on to years more of effective, mentally sharp-as-a-tack service.

If you claim to have never in your life lost a word or name “on the top of your tongue” or “in the back of your mind,” or said one word when you meant another, you’re a bigger liar than Trump, Bill Clinton, and Joe Isuzu put together.

Neuroscience offers solid explanations for this phenomenon, having nothing whatsoever to do with dementia, stupidity, or other ongoing mental or medical issues. The likelihood of a lapse along these lines is far greater than not, with one explanatory article flat-out saying that “if you’re giving a talk, you’d better believe you’re going to lose your train of thought at some point.”

Granted, if such things happen unusually frequently, especially if the surrounding verbiage also indicates confusion, then word loss can be a sign of a deeper problem. Occasional goofs like Trump’s, though, may be worth a joke or two on late-night television, but they otherwise should be seen as utterly unremarkable. They certainly are nothing to get hot and, uh, smothered, I mean, uh, bothered, about.

[Also read: Tim Ryan says Trump’s Toledo mistake shows ‘diminished mental capacity' to lead]