US President Joe Biden made a blunder by confusing Sweden and Switzerland at a press conference this Thursday (30) when he closed his participation in the NATO summit in Madrid.

Biden was talking about NATO’s formal invitation to Sweden and Finland to join the military alliance, and he remembered when Finnish President Sauli Niinistö suggested that he call Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson – and he spoke of the country at that moment. wrong, but then corrected itself. .

“I got a call from the Finnish leader, asking if he could come and talk to me. He came the next day and said, ‘Will you support my country joining NATO?’ he asked. We went on the phone and he suggested we call the leader. Switzerland.” he said, he will replace it with self-correction.

“Switzerland… God, I’m really nervous here with the expansion of NATO. It’s from Sweden,” he said.

It’s not uncommon for the American president to experience this type of delay. He admitted that he was “a blunder machine”.

Those who know Biden say he has stuttered since childhood that sometimes made it difficult to speak, and he spontaneously attributes some of the most embarrassing moments of his long political career to his nature.