Joe Biden mixed up a living politician with a dead politician for the second time this week.
the The president is ours He referenced the late German Chancellor Helmut Kohl rather than former Chancellor Angela Merkel while detailing the 2021 conversation at campaign events on Wednesday.
During the fundraiser in New York, the 81-year-old described conversations he said he had with European leaders at a G7 meeting in Cornwall in 2021, which took place months after the crisis. January 6 riots In the Capitol.
He said that Helmut Kohl, who died in 2017, asked him how he would react if he read about people storming the British Parliament and killing officers “to stop the election of a prime minister.”
But it was Merkel who attended the summit in her capacity as German Chancellor.
The fatal mistake came days later Biden has confused François MitterrandThe former French president, who died in 1996, is the current president, Emmanuel Macron.
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Biden confuses Macron with the late French leader
In a campaign speech in Las Vegas on Monday, Biden was telling the same story he told on Wednesday, commenting on how the leaders of France and Germany reacted when they saw him at the G7 summit after the Jan. 6 riots.
Speaking to Macron, he not only referred to him as Mitterrand, but also initially said he was “from Germany,” before quickly correcting himself.
Mitterrand served as President of France from 1981 to 1995.
These comments came less than a day before he appeared frozen while briefing reporters on a possible hostage deal between Israel and Hamas.
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Biden's mistakes have been reported regularly in recent years.
More recent examples include confusion Taylor Swift and Britney Spears In November while pardoning turkeys at a Thanksgiving feast, he referred to the All Blacks rugby team as “Black and Tans– A British paramilitary force that suppressed opponents of British rule during the Irish War of Independence.
