Joe Biden confused Angela Merkel with her predecessor Helmut Kohl. The confusion occurred while he was repeating an anecdote from the G7 summit in Great Britain.
This is the second slip in 24 hours for the president, who has lately seemed cloudy and tired. The 81-year-old president recalled that "after having declared that the United States is back, the German HelMut Kohl turned to me and said : 'President, what would you do if tomorrow the Times and read that 1,000 people broke into parliament?"