Mentalist Oz Pearlman was performing for President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump and press secretary Karoline Leavitt at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday, April 24, when he realized something was very wrong. "I was performing right then for the president, the press secretary and the first lady," the magician said during a Sunday, April 26, appearance on CNN's State of the Union. "It [was] kind of a pivotal moment in the trick where you're just about to do the reveal ... and we hear commotion.