President Joe Biden recently made an appearance when he got confused French President Emmanuel Macron with the former French leader François Mitterrand, who died in 1996, on Sunday during a rambling anecdote. Donald Trump has criticized Biden for his memory loss.
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Biden made the blunder during a speech in Las Vegas, Nevada as Democrats and Republicans alike grow increasingly concerned over the 81-year-old’s ability to serve a second term in the White House.
“Right after I was elected, I went to what they call a G7 meeting, all the NATO leaders,” said Biden on Sunday:
“It was in south of England and I sat down and I said, “America’s back, and Mitterrand from Germany, I mean from France, looked at me and said– said, “You know, why– how long you back for?” And I looked at him and chancellor of Germany said, “What would you say, Mr. President, if you picked up the paper tomorrow in the London Times and the London Times said, ‘A thousand people break through the House of Commons, break down the doors, two bobbies are killed in order to stop the election of the prime minister.’ What would you say?” I never thought about it from that perspective. What would we say if that happened in another democracy around the world?”
Biden appeared to confuse Macron, who has served as the president of France since 2017, with the late Mitterrand who served as president from 1981 until 1995, just months before his death in January 1996.
Mitterrand passed away at the age of 79 – two years younger than Biden’s current age.
