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.
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.'
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