The President of the United States, Joe Biden, incorrectly referred to a conversation he had with on Wednesday evening Angela Merkel in 2021, as if it had happened with Chancellor Helmut Kohlwho died in 2017, was confused for the second time this week.
At a reception in New York to raise money for his re-election, Biden, 81, changed a story that is a regular part of his speech by including Kohl instead of Angela Merkel, who was in power at the time of the conversation he was referring to the G7 summit in 2021.
The hint came when Biden was talking about it Attack on January 6, 2021 Supporters of then-President Donald Trump, who was running for the Republican presidential nomination this year, protested at the Capitol.
When I was first elected president, I attended a G7 meeting with the seven heads of state of Europe and Great Britain. I sat down and said, ‘Well, America is back,’ and the French president looked at me and said, ‘For how long?’ I’ve never thought about it that way,” Biden said.
“Then Helmut Kohl from Germany looked at me and said: ‘What would you say, Mr President, if you picked up the Times of London tomorrow morning and found out that a thousand people broke down the doors of the British Parliament and killed some? ‘ (People) are coming in,” Biden said.
When asked, the press spokesman responded White HouseKarine Jean-Pierre, told reporters: “As far as the names and what I wanted to say, a lot of people, elected officials (…), you know, Sometimes it can be poorly expressed.
He listed several politicians who had made negative comments similar.
“It happens to all of us, it’s common,” he said.
When asked about Biden’s overall health, he said only that His previous physical examinations had confirmed that he was in good health. and indicated that he would undergo further examination.
Speaking about the 2021 G7 summit earlier this week, Biden confused French President Emmanuel Macron with the late Francois Mitterrand, who was in power from 1981 to 1995 and died in 1996.
Trump, 77, has also misidentified people, and recently confused Republican Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosithe Democrat who was Speaker of the House of Representatives during his term.
With information from Rueters.
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