President Biden drew immediate online reaction after again mixing up the names of foreign political leaders, this time trying to emphasize his mental health.
The president gave a short address to the nation from the White House on Thursday night, fielding questions from reporters about concerns about his age and memory stemming from special counsel Robert Hur’s report on Biden’s handling of classified documents. I responded.
Immediately after Biden claimed that his memory was “no problem,” he began referring to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi as the “President of Mexico.”
“As you know, initially Mexican President Sisi… [sic] We didn’t want to open the gates to allow humanitarian supplies to come in. [to Gaza]. I talked to him. I persuaded him to open the gate,” the president said.
The irony of the mix-up, which came so soon after Biden defended his memory, struck many social media users.
“Did he get the Mexican president to open the gates for refugees from Gaza? Dear God. Anyone who thought this was a good idea should be fired.” America First Policy Institute Public Affairs Director Mark Lotter wrote:
exclaimed New Yorker staff writer Susan Glasser. “President of Mexico” Mr. Sisi. It’s a shame that the appearance was meant to dispel concerns about Biden’s age. What a year this day has been. ”
“So Sissi is the president of Mexico,” joked New York Post columnist John Poddarts.
North Carolina Congressman Dan Bishop summed it up: It was painful to watch. ”
Chuck Roth, an investigative reporter for the Washington Free Beacon, responded to New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait, who said, “That’s a pretty effective performance by Biden,” saying, “Yes, I’d call El Sisi the Mexican president. “He was really spot on when he called it that.”
“This is the danger of live press conferences denying mental acuity issues. Press. Biden just called Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi the president of Mexico,” RealClearPolitics’ correspondent Susan Crabtree explained.
“The president appears to think he is negotiating with the Mexican president to allow aid to Gaza,” conservative commentator Viva Frey wrote. What a great way to show Putin and the world that he is not some crazy, incompetent old man. ”
“We just notified Joe Biden of an emergency. He said he had no memory problems, confusing the leaders of Mexico and Egypt. He’s lost it. This is hard to watch. “It’s time for the 25th Amendment. I don’t know if I’ll be able to finish my term in 11 months,” declared Outkick founder Clay Travis.
When asked for comment, White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates referred Fox News Digital to a post by Atlantic staff writer Yair Rosenberg.
“Biden has gaffeped names throughout his career. In 2008, he introduced his running mate as “Barack America, the next president of the United States.” The man, whose name was Sisi, was clearly talking about Egypt and explained in detail his own policies and broader issues. Twitter has no interest,” Rosenberg wrote on Sunday alongside a video of House Speaker Mike Johnson confusing Israel and Iran.
The speech came just hours after Special Counsel Robert Hur released a report that did not recommend criminal charges against the president for mishandling classified documents. These records include classified documents related to Afghanistan’s military and foreign policy, including other records related to national security and foreign policy, which are classified as “confidential sources and Hoare said.
But Hoar described Biden as “a sympathetic, well-meaning older man with a poor memory.” In his more than 300-page report, Mr. “He will follow his ideas very well,” he said. By the ’80s.
It was also the third gaffe this week for Biden to publicly mix up the names of world leaders. On Sunday, Biden claimed to have met French President François Mitterrand, who died in 1996, at the first Group of Seven (G7) meeting of 2021. On Wednesday, he recalled that he spoke with late German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, even though Kohl had passed away. In 2017, at the same G7 meeting.
