Subhead: Though the comments were still utterly false.

Former President Donald Trump seems to have confused former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown with former California Gov. Jerry Brown during a Thursday press conference in Palm Beach, Florida. It was particularly notable because he was telling a story in which he claimed that he and Willie Brown “went down in a helicopter” together. Trump, the Republican nominee for president, made the bizarre remark while riffing about his November opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, who dated Willie Brown back in the 1990s.

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The former San Francisco mayor was quick to point out that Trump’s story wasn’t true, telling KRON4: “I’ve never done business with Donald Trump, let’s start with that. And secondly, I don’t think I’d want to ride on the same helicopter with him, because there’s too many people that have an agenda with reference to him, including the people who service helicopters.” He also told the New York Times,“ You know me well enough to know that if I almost went down in a helicopter with anybody, you would have heard about it!”

Trump is no stranger to odd claims, but this one is especially odd. He did ride in a helicopter with Jerry Brown, the former governor, and Gov. Gavin Newsom, then the governor-elect, back in 2018 to survey wildfire damage, but both Jerry Brown and Newsom told the New York Times that the craft didn’t crash.

“There was no emergency landing and no discussion of Kamala Harris,” Jerry Brown told the outlet through a spokesperson. His reference to Harris in that statement was to address another claim Trump made at Thursday’s press conference: that Willie Brown told him “terrible things” about Harris. Brown told KRON4 that he “could not envision thinking of Kamala Harris in any negative way” and said Trump “would have to be” making up the comments. “I am just looking forward for the next 89 days, I just can’t wait to get her in as president,” he said.