The president looked to the first lady, 24 years his junior, for assistance after a question didn’t register.

President Donald Trump had to lean on First Lady Melania to help him understand a reporter’s question while hosting tech leaders at the White House. The first couple hosted Silicon Valley giants, including Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook, and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, in the State Dining Room on Thursday evening. Missing from the table was Tesla CEO and ex-Trump advisor Elon Musk, who said he had been invited but “unfortunately could not attend” and had dispatched a representative in his stead. Trump, flanked by Zuckerberg on one side and Melania on the other, briefly fielded questions from the press in the room, including one from a reporter standing across the table who asked into a microphone, “Do you plan to speak with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in the near future?”