President Biden has been criticized online for claiming that he met with former French President Francois Mitterrand, who died nearly 30 years ago.
Biden told an audience in Las Vegas on Sunday about his meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron during the G7 meeting in Britain after he was already sworn in as president.
“I sat down and said, ‘America is back,'” Biden recalled. “And Mitterrand from Germany, Mitterrand from France, looked at me and said…”
Biden tells crowd he recently met with former French president Mitterrand, who died in 1996.
President Biden has been criticized online for claiming that he met with former French President Francois Mitterrand, who died nearly 30 years ago. (Getty Images)
François Mitterrand served as President of France from 1981 to 1995, but died in 1996.
Biden appeared to back away before gathering his thoughts, finishing his sentence by saying, “So how long are you going to be back?”
Biden was ridiculed online for the gaffe, with politicians and commentators asking what was wrong with the president.
“Was Biden the kid from The Sixth Sense?” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) asked jokingly, referring to the 1999 horror film.
Show host Graham Allen said Biden’s false claim that he had recently met with the late French president was “not a healthy sign.”
Popular TikTok X account Libs wrote that the clip was a sign of “elder abuse.”
Political commentator Peachy Keenan wrote: “We’re forever stuck in the 1980s loop, but I’m not angry.”
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The President went on to ask how the “German Chancellor” would react if thousands of people stormed the British House of Commons and killed two British police officers called “Bobby”. said. The prime minister’s election will be canceled.
the hill He then warned that the White House, which had posted Biden’s comments online, had published a speech in which Mitterrand’s name was crossed out and replaced by current French President Macron.
Biden is known for a number of gaffes in his speeches, most recently in January when he made what appeared to be an almost incomprehensible remark about beer. (Screenshot/Biden speech)
Biden is known for a number of gaffes, and in his most recent speech in January, he appeared to make an almost incomprehensible remark about beer.
During a speech in Wisconsin, Biden appeared to tweet mid-sentence that “beer brewed here is used to make beer here.” I couldn’t understand most of the sentence, but he seemed to add, “Oh, Earthrider, thank you for the Great Lakes. I wonder why…”
The Biden campaign did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
FOX News’ Bradford Betts and Gabriel Hayes contributed to this report.
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