OAN’s Brooke Mallory
Friday, July 5, 2024, 4:00 p.m.
President Joe Biden misrepresented himself again, publicly claiming to be “the first Black woman to serve under a Black president” in an attempt to reassure voters that he is still qualified for the presidency.
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A week after his disastrous debate defeat, the 81-year-old president made an embarrassing mistake while searching for the right words during a television appearance in Philadelphia. word It was broadcast on radio stations on Thursday as part of an Independence Day media spotlight.
Biden again appeared to hesitate when talking about his selection of Kamala Harris, who served as vice president under former President Barack Obama, as his running mate.
“By the way, as I said, I am proud to be the first vice president. [the] “I’m the first black woman to serve under a black president,” he told radio host Andrea Lawful Sanders.
Biden has previously bragged in interviews about his selection of Kamala Harris, the first Black woman to serve as vice president, and also touted his selection of Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman appointed to the Supreme Court.
Biden made the comparison while telling the moderator that he understood the racial implications of Jackson’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court for “a young girl who goes to school and has problems.”
But the second comment about Jackson was perceived as racist by many social media users who posted about it.
“Biden is assuming Ketanji Brown Jackson is a girl who ‘has problems in school’ because she’s black? That’s horrible,” one X (Twitter) user said.
Moreover, the gaffe was just one of many mistakes and missteps Biden made in the interview, in an attempt to reassure Americans that his disastrous debate performance was an isolated incident.
Biden also made the bizarre claim that “when I was a kid, I was the first statewide elected president in Delaware.”
At another time, he claimed to understand “the Negro struggle” for representation because he believed a Catholic could not become president before John F. Kennedy was elected president more than 60 years ago.
“I looked at John Kennedy and I thought, ‘Oh my God, he — John — got elected, why can’t I get elected?'” Biden said. “People need something to look up to.”
But Amar Moosa, a spokesman for Biden’s reelection campaign, was quick to denounce the media for drawing attention to the president’s latest gaffes.
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