Reading from the teleprompter, and almost certainly written by one of his minions.

He said democracy should be decided by ballot box" twice, and each time his weak speechifying made it sound like "democracy should be decided by the battle box".

As one of the prime culprits in lighting flames under violent contention, such as "Putin must go" or "It's time to put Trump in the bullseye" an honest mea culpa might have been appropriate but as a man with no insight, that's not going to come.