Video | Biden confuses Ukraine with Iraq and says his son died there: a slip or two?

US President Joe Biden has confused Ukraine with Iraq during a midterm election rally in Florida.

He has immediately apologized and justified the mistake because his son died in Iraq, when in fact he died in the United States.

“Inflation is a world problem because of the war in Iraq, the impact on oil and what Russia is doing, sorry, the war in Ukraine.

I think of Iraq because that's where my son died," Biden said.

Some media have been quick to highlight the president's double lapse.

But there is an explanation for the second, which would not have been a slip, but an intentional statement.

Biden's son Beau died of brain cancer in 2015. He was a veteran of the Iraq war, and had worked there at a US base's waste incineration pit.

Biden has on numerous occasions linked his son's deadly illness to the toxic substances he was exposed to there.

The confusion of Ukraine with Iraq is not the first lapse the president has had in recent weeks.

In September, during another public act, he looked for a congresswoman who had died in August.