Hours after the release of a Special Counsel report which took repeated shots at his cognitive function, President Joe Biden made a gaffe which seems certain to exacerbate the public’s concerns.
In a stunning moment during an impromptu White House news conference late Thursday, the president made a shocking gaffe by confusing Mexico with Egypt. The jawdropping error happened when Biden fielded a reporter’s question about Israel and Hamas.
“As you know, initially, the president of Mexico, al-Sisi did not want to open up the gate to allow humanitarian material to get in,” Biden said. “I talked to him. I convinced him to open the gate.”
The president was trying to refer to the leader of Egypt, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi.
Just hours earlier, Special Counsel Robert Hur repeatedly belittled the president’s cognitive function in a devastating report — calling him an “elderly man with a poor memory.” The president took particular umbrage with Hur’s claim that Biden could not remember when his son died “even within several years”
“How in the hell dare he raise that!” Biden said. He added, “I don’t need anyone to remind me when he passed away.”
Watch above, via CNN