Stupidity is a symptom of being utterly uncaring
"Obama calls tornado ravaged town by the wrong name.... O'Rourke was right, Obama is stupid." : Minnfidel
really? no surprise.
As when he didn't know the name of various soldiers, including the one on his memorial bracelet, can't count the number of states, and the mispronunciation of corpsman, I would not discount that the stupidity is a symptom of being utterly uncaring about any of these things. What matters to him is that he's speaking, and he cares nothing about the content delivered in his droning cadence - content which he doesn't care about or believe in.