Another blunder on the part of Joe Biden.
After getting tangled up between Emmanuel Macron and François Mitterrand at the beginning of February, the American president - 81 years old - twice confused the situation in Ukraine and Gaza this Friday, reports the Anglo-Saxon press including The Telegraph.
While receiving Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Joe Biden spoke of the need to deliver "additional food and supplies to Ukraine", while seeking to "open other routes" of supplies "in Ukraine.”
President Biden says they will be completing air drops of 'food and supplies into Ukraine', and the US is seeking to open up 'other avenues in Ukraine'.
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— Sky News (@SkyNews) March 1, 2024
He actually wanted to discuss the very worrying humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, where the war between Israel and Hamas continues to rage since the terrorist attacks of October 7.
“In the coming days, we will join our friends in Jordan and other countries in airdrops of food and other goods,” Joe Biden declared before accidentally talking about Ukraine.
An error corrected a posteriori
The American president himself did not realize his mistake.
This was corrected by his team in the transcription of his remarks.
Joe Biden also stressed that the United States would “seek to open other routes of access to Gaza, including the possibility of a maritime corridor to deliver large quantities of humanitarian aid”.
Also read: Mitterrand instead of Macron, his deceased son… those times when Joe Biden's memory played tricks on him
At the beginning of February, Biden wanted to refer to a G7 summit which took place shortly after his election in 2020. “I sat down, and I said:
America is back
,” Joe Biden declared.
And Mitterrand, from Germany… from France looked at me and said:
how long are you back?
".
Shortly after, he confused Egypt and Mexico, claiming that General Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi ruled Mexico instead of Egypt.
A special prosecutor published a 388-page report on February 9 pointing the finger at the “memory” of Joe Biden whose condition had “worsened”.
“I mean well, I’m an old man and I know what I’m doing, dammit.
I don’t have memory problems,” he then defended himself.
These repeated blunders come in an election year where Joe Biden will compete for re-election, undoubtedly against Donald Trump.