Being involved in two wars at the same time can sometimes be disorienting.
While the United States provides both military aid to Ukraine and humanitarian support to the people of Gaza, US President Joe Biden has twice conflated the two conflicts.
Before Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, whom he received at the White House, the head of state spoke of the need to transport
"additional food and supplies to Ukraine"
, and to
"seek to open other routes”
of supply to this same country.
Joe Biden did not realize his error, but his team took responsibility for correcting his remarks in the written record which followed his declaration.
The American president actually wanted to talk about “air drops
” on Gaza, in collaboration with Jordan, and the hypothetical opening of a
“maritime corridor”
towards the enclave besieged by the Israeli army.
A mandate peppered with blunders
No stranger to blunders in public, Joe Biden has made a string of more worrying confusions in recent weeks.
The American president notably confused Emmanuel Macron and François Mitterrand, and judged that the latter was the German president.
Later, he spoke of a conversation he would have had in 2021 with former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl… who died in 2017. The past blunders of the man who nicknamed himself the
“gaffe machine”
sometimes made us smile .
But since the start of his mandate, his sometimes lunar declarations have worried and raised questions about his state of mental health, particularly because of his advanced age.
Also read: From the “gaffe machine” to suspicions of senility: a mandate of blunders and confusions for Joe Biden
The head of state, who will seek a second term in November at the age of 81, was keen to organize a press conference at the White House on Thursday, February 8, in order to refute the allegations about the deterioration of his faculties. mental.
He only made the situation worse, referring to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as
"the president of Mexico
. "
On Wednesday January 28, the American president underwent his annual health examination, during which he was declared
“fit”
to be president.
The White House said a cognitive test was not deemed necessary, according to his doctor.
Donald Trump, his very likely opponent next November, jumped at the opportunity by asking him to submit to such a test.
“Maybe with this we can see why he makes such terrible decisions
,” he scathed on his Truth Social network.