After confusing Emmanuel Macron with François Mitterrand, Joe Biden has now confused former German Chancellor Angela Merkel with her predecessor Helmut Kohl, who died in 2017.
Telling the same anecdote about the G7 in Cornwall, where the assault on the Capitol was being discussed, the 81-year-old president recalled – speaking at a fundraiser in New York on Wednesday – that “after declaring that the United States has transformed itself, the German Helmut Kohl turned to me and said: “President, what would you do if you opened the Times tomorrow and read that 1,000 people stormed parliament?”
This is the second mistake in 24 hours by Biden, who made it recently it looks cloudy and tired even in the face of questions from the journalists who follow him to the White House.
“It happened again!”
The media in the United States did not ignore him.
Politico begins a note on the topic with exclamation points and a: “It happened again!”
This is the second time this week that the US president has confused European leaders. Photo: AP This is the second time this week that the US president has confused European leaders with the dead. While telling another story about the G7 summit, Biden earlier this week confused French President Emmanuel Macron with the late François Mitterrand, who led France from 1981 to 1995 and died in 1996.
The 81-year-old president of the United States has made a series of embarrassing mistakes in public, Politico points out.
In July 2023 he said it accidentally “more than 100” Americans had died from Covid-19. The White House later corrected this figure “more than 1 million.”
In June, He confused the war in Ukraine with the one in Iraq and said Russian President Vladimir Putin “is losing the war in Iraq.”
Former President Donald Trump, who will be Biden’s main opponent in the next US presidential election, is not immune to gaffes.
Last October, Trump confused Hungary and Turkey calling Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, leader of Türkiye. And less than a week later, he incorrectly claimed that Hungary borders Russia. It is not so.
Last month, Trump also confused Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Source: Clarin
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