President Biden’s Press Conference Gaffe Has The Internet Talking
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By Melissa Willets/June 17, 2021 1:00 pm EST
Oddly, the 78-year-old seemed to suffer a slip of the tongue, mistakenly calling Putin by the name of his former rival for the top job, President Trump (via Express). “I caught part of President, uh, Tru– uh, Putin’s press conference, and he talked about the need for us to have some kind of modus operandi where the Arctic was in fact a free zone,” Biden said, with cameras rolling.
To be fair, Biden called Putin by the correct name many other times during the press conference. But Twitter wasn’t about to let the momentary slip slide by without pouncing.
Twitter reacts to President Biden’s gaffe
Meanwhile, many social media trolls used the opportunity to suggest that Biden suffers from dementia, a claim that has plagued him for quite some time (via Independent).
Biden is of course known for such missteps, with the President also correcting Prime Minister Boris Johnson for not introducing the president of South Africa, even though he had already done so (via New York Post).
