Joe Biden‘s attempts to show he is not senile have backfired spectacularly on the world stage after he muddled President Zelensky with President Putin and then called Kamala Harris ‘Vice President Trump’.
The US President’s worst ever gaffes came at a NATO summit in Washington and left his political future further hanging by a thread.
DETAILS OF THE INCIDENT
Mr Biden gave his most important speech in months – but it quickly fell to pieces as he introduced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky by the name of his sworn enemy and Ukraine’s tormentor.
The 81-year-old Leader of the Free World, who is facing mounting calls to drop out of the presidential race, said: ‘Ladies and gentlemen, President Putin’. It sparked gasps from world leaders and Biden’s team of aides in the room shouted the correct name.
IT STARTED
A clearly panicked Biden then corrected himself and said: ‘No, we’re going to beat Putin’. He then blamed the blunder on being ‘so focused’ on defeating the Russian leader who invaded Ukraine two-and-a-half years ago. Mr Zelensky then cancelled a planned press conference.
IT GOT WORSE
And later it got worse for Biden when a reporter asked whether Kamala Harris could beat Donald Trump – and he answered in excruciating fashion.
Muddling up names again he said: ‘Look, I wouldn’t have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president if I didn’t think she was not qualified to be vice president’.
It came after more senior Democrats said he should drop out.
CNN also claimed Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi have talked about getting him to step aside ahead of the November election.
