It's NOT funny at all.. It's EXTREMELY REVEALING!
What American doesn't know that there are only 50 States?
To have a "slip of the tongue" like that MUST mean he is very familiar the concept of the 57 Islamic states.
Most Americans learned their American geography in elementary school, when Barack was or was not attending Q’uranic instruction in Indonesia.
Having said that, I think that, along with Hawaiians general indifference to the existence of the rest of the U.S. as an actual real place (rather than a vaguely Siberian place from which tourist refugees are continually visiting) accounts for his haziness as to whether the U.S. has 50 or 60 states.