Joe Biden's Gaffes Over The Years
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13 July 2024
From verbal slip-ups to near-fall incidents, here are some of the US President Joe Biden's gaffes over recent years
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While speaking to reporters about NATO's support for Ukraine earlier this week, Mr Biden mistakenly called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky "President Putin"
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At the same conference, when he was asked about his Vice President Kamala Harris, he mistakenly called her "vice president Trump"
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In February this year, Mr Biden appeared to confuse Egypt with Mexico while referring to the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict in the Middle East
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In the same month, the US President mistakenly claimed to have met Francois Mitterand, who died in 1996, at the G7 summit in 2021
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He also said that he had spoken to German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who died in 2017, about the January 6 riots, which happened in 2021
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In July 2023, Joe Biden stumbled awkwardly on the stairs of Air Force One. He was walking up to board the presidential plane in Finland when he stumbled
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Last year, the US President muddled up the ongoing war in Ukraine with the Iraq war, which ended in 2011
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In 2023, Mr Biden also made another verbal gaffe when he bizarrely closed out a speech on gun control with the proclamation: "God save the Queen, man"
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When Mr Biden hosted Rishi Sunak as UK Prime Minister at the White House in June 2023, he accidentally addressed him as "Mr President"
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In 2022, a video of Joe Biden appearing to turn to shake someone's hand after a speech left the internet puzzled
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In a viral video, the 81-year-old was also caught sleeping on the job at the COP26 climate change conference in Scotland in 2021
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