US President Joe Biden made another mistake during a speech in Maryland on the 19th (local time) and became a rumor.
President Biden misspelled the number ‘8’ while giving a speech on economic initiatives in Akokik, Maryland, that day.
“There are thousands of billionaires in America,” he said. Do you know the average tax rate they pay?” “E, I, G, H percent. 8%”.
He misspelled ‘EIGHT’, the letter of the number ‘8’, as ‘EIGH’.
The New York Post reported that former Vice President Dan Quayle was reminiscent of the controversy over not knowing the word ‘potatoes’, the plural of potato.
Some domestic media also paid attention to the fact that President Biden spoke of South America during his speech on this day, and then reversed it to South Korea, calling it a’speech mistake’.
“Now companies are investing in the US. Not only American companies, but also foreign companies,” he said. “I once asked a large company in ‘South America’ or ‘South Korea’ why they are building semiconductor factories in the United States. They said the US workforce was the best in the world.”
The aged President Biden is causing concern around him by repeatedly making mistakes in public settings.
During my visit to Ireland last week, the New Zealand rugby team (All Blacks) was mistakenly referred to as the British Police (Black and Tans) who put down the Irish War of Independence.
Last January, on the anniversary of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., he sang a song to celebrate the deceased’s eldest daughter-in-law’s birthday, but he was not able to pronounce her name properly, drawing attention. At a White House event in September of last year, he was seen calling out the name of a U.S. congressman who died in a car accident.
Biden also made several mistakes related to Korea.
When I visited Korea in May of last year, I called President Seok-Yeol Yoon as ‘President Moon’ and corrected it immediately. When he met former President Moon at the White House in 2021, he even referred to him as the Prime Minister, not the President.
President Biden was born in 1942 and is 80 years old this year.
Source: Donga
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