After confusing Emmanuel Macron with Francois Mitterrand, Joe Biden has now confused former German Chancellor Angela Merkel with his predecessor Helmut Kohl, who died in 2017.
Telling the same anecdote about the G7 in Cornwall, 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?"
This is the second slip in 24 hours for Biden, who has lately
seemed cloudy and tired
even when faced with questions from journalists who follow him in the White House.
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With information from ANSA