Oz Pearlman performing a trick in front of President Trump via CSPAN
One of the most viral videos from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shows Oz Pearlman presenting President Trump with a white card as gunfire rang out inside the Washington Hilton Hotel.
The video prompted users on social media to question and create theories about what was written on the card.
Now Oz Pearlman has revealed what he wrote on the card.
Pearlman, who is a notable mentalist, told USA Today that just moments before a gunman opened fire at the event, he was performing a trick where he was going to guess White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s baby’s name.
The mentalist noted that Leavitt has kept the baby’s name private and revealed that on his white card was the name “Viviane,” which Leavitt has confirmed is the name she has selected for her baby.
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WILD: Oz Pearlman the ‘Mentalist’ was performing a trick on Donald Trump when the shots rang out @OzTheMentalist pic.twitter.com/45H3rh6UM3
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Per USA Today:
Oz Pearlman has revealed the trick he was performing when shots rang out at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.
“The night was going very, very well. I was warming up the crowd, the VP was loving my show, and I was speaking to the press secretary,” he tells USA TODAY. The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, is expecting her second baby with husband Nicholas Riccio any day. “The challenge was to figure out the name of her unborn daughter,” Pearlman recalls. The mentalist did just that. He turned his notepad around to reveal the name Viviane.
“I never would have shared this with the world, the point is not to ‘gotcha’ her. But I spoke to her and she said it’s OK to share,” he says. “ ‘This is a moment in history,’ she told me. When it happened, she said, ‘I don’t know how the hell you guessed my daughter’s name.’ ”
In a text, Leavitt confirmed that Pearlman’s account is accurate. “The timing was insane,” he adds. “Right as I did the reveal, that’s exactly the moment things went down in the room. So you see the peak reaction to my trick, the ‘Oh!’ And then things instantly change to shock and distress.”
Within moments, he was on the ground with President Donald Trump. “Seeing his face a foot away − I’ll never forget that,” he says. “It’s a photo in my mind forever. I wish I had meta glasses on and I’d have that photo.”
President Trump isn’t the first high-profile figure Pearlman has performed for.
Pearlman previously guessed Joe Rogan’s debit pin number during a live podcast.
WATCH:
NEW: Joe Rogan clearly uncomfortable after ‘mentalist’ Oz Pearlman successfully guesses his ATM PIN code on his recent show.
Pearlman: How’d I do, Joe? Is that your ATM PIN code?
Rogan: Yeah… I don’t like that. pic.twitter.com/PH9MWtH9gU
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) June 4, 2025
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