The American president, Joe Biden, visibly angry, said in a national address Thursday that he has no memory problems, after a special prosecutor’s report described him as “a well-intentioned old man with a bad memory.” However, he made a new mistake: confused the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, with that of Egypt, Abdelfatah al Sisi.
“I’m well intentioned, I’m old and I know what I’m doing.. “I am president and I will put this country back on its feet,” said Biden, who will seek re-election in November’s general election.
“my memory is good“He pointed out. Additionally, he was upset that the report mentioned that he had forgotten the day of his son Beau’s death. “How the hell dare you?”he declared from the diplomatic room of the White House.
However, At the end of the speech he made an error that contrasted with his previous statements. The fact is that he confused the Mexican president with the Egyptian president. “As you know, initially the president of Mexico, Sisi, did not want to open the entrance to bring humanitarian aid (to the Gaza Strip). I talked to him, I convinced him,” he said, without realizing his mistake .
Third confusion in a few days and a long list of embarrassing errors
Far from being an isolated incident, Joe Biden has been involved in several mix-ups lately, especially in the last few days. Without going further, on Wednesday evening he 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?'”
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The president of the United States reconstructed a conversation he had with his French counterpart in 2021, confusing him with François Mitterrand, who governed the French country from 1981 to 1995.
Earlier on Sunday, he had referred to aa alleged conversation had in 2021 with former French president François Mitterrand, who died in 1996. Specifically, you confused him with Emmanuel Macron.
The 81-year-old president of the United States did has made a series of embarrassing mistakes in public.
In July 2023, he accidentally said that “more than 100″ Americans had died from Covid-19. The White House later corrected this figure “More than a 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.”
Source: Clarin
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