Biden slammed as he confuses French Prez Emmanuel Macron with predecessor Mitterrand who died in 1996

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA: President Joe Biden delivered a speech in Las Vegas to hospitality workers ahead of the Nevada primary on Tuesday, February 6.

Per Daily Mail, during the speech on Monday, he recalled an anecdote about attending the G7 summit in England in June 2021.

“It was in south of England and I sat down and I said: 'America's back,'” Biden recounted. “And Mitterrand from Germany, I mean from France, looked at me and said: 'You know, how long you back for?'”

It appears that President Biden confused the current French President Emmanuel Macron with his predecessor Francois Mitterrand, who died in 1996.

The confusion is unfortunate for the 81-year-old incumbent POTUS who is already striving to persuade the American public that he maintains his full mental acuity.

What else did Biden say in his campaign speech on Monday?

Biden went on to say that the then-Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, had asked him how he would feel if he heard about the storming of Parliament in Britain.

Biden described it as a fresh new perspective on the January 6 riots.

He remarked, “I never thought about it from that perspective. What would we say if that happened in another democracy around the world.”

The presumptive Democrat presidential nominee claimed, “It's not going to happen. This guy is going to lose.”

Biden, the current President of the United States, has a history of verbal gaffes, which have been attributed to his childhood stutter.

In Monday’s campaign speech, he made a factual error when he claimed to have met Francois Mitterrand, the former President of France, while he was still in office.

Biden, who was then the Chair of the European Affairs Committee, met Mitterrand in January 1988 to discuss a Soviet nuclear weapons treaty.

At the time, Mitterrand had been in office for seven years and was one of the longest-serving Presidents in French history.

Biden has also met Emmanuel Macron, the current President of France, who was elected in 2017 at the age of 39.

Macron is the youngest President in French history and its youngest head of state since Napoleon.

Biden's mistake is just the latest in a series of gaffes that have earned him the moniker of "gaffe machine."

President Biden mistakenly stated that his son Beau died in Iraq, instead of at Walter Reed, and in June 2023, he confused the ongoing war in Ukraine with the Iraq War, which had ended in 2011.

Additionally, he declared that Vladimir Putin was "clearly losing the war in Iraq," which was inconsistent with the actual state of events.

During the same month, he concluded a speech on gun control with the unusual proclamation: "God save the Queen, man."

However, Queen Elizabeth II had died in September 2022, and it was unclear to some whether he meant Queen Camilla.

The following month, he claimed to have achieved a medical breakthrough, stating that "we ended cancer as we know it."

In December 2023, he boasted about infrastructure spending during his time at the Oval Office, stating that it had reached "over a billion, 300 million, trillion, 300 million dollars," which is a mathematically impossible figure.

Internet skewers Biden over increasingly frequent verbal gaffes before election

People on X ripped the Democratic President of the United States over the series of factual errors during his recent campaign speeches.

One X user said, “Anybody that has either worked with, or had a loved one suffer from dementia knows exactly what’s going on here."

Another user remarked: "For the first time in history, the symbol of the United States, represented by the president, has become this mockery."

Another quipped, "So mentally Biden is stuck in 1996."

One user wrote, "He makes a joke of the USA. He needs to go."

Another remarked, "This will be the election of "who forgets the least?" At least if Trump isn't convicted of anything this Summer. Though, that's not likely."

Someone else tweeted, "It’s just the “childhood stutter” acting up again."

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