President Joe Biden made yet another awkward gaffe, this time during a speech in the Middle East.
The commander in chief made the slip-up while delivering remarks in Saudi Arabia on the final day of his tour of the region, when he spoke of the “selfishness” of America’s troops.
“For the first time since 9/11, an American President is visiting this region without American troops being engaged in combat — in a combat mission in the region,” Biden said. “We’ll always honor the bravery and selfishness — selflessness — of the, and sacrifices of the Americans who served, including my son, Maj. Beau Biden, who was stationed in Iraq for a year.”
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken, situated near the president during the speech, became noticeably uncomfortable after the awkward slip of the tongue.
The comment came two days after Biden had another slip of the tongue in Israel, where he pledged to “keep alive the truth and honor of the Holocaust” before visiting Yad Vashem, the holocaust memorial and museum in Jerusalem.
Similar to his reaction after his “selfishness” comment, the president quickly corrected himself, saying “horror of the Holocaust,” as the line was written, after his flub.
The transcript of the arrival speech included the president’s hiccups. It read, “Later today, I will once more return to the hallowed ground of Yad Sh — Vashem to honor the six million Jewish lives that were stolen in a genocide and continue — which we must do every, every day — continue to bear witness, to keep alive the truth and honor [horror] of the Holocaust — horror of the Holocaust, honor those we lost so that we never, ever forget that lesson, you know, and to continue our shared, unending work to fight the poison of anti-Semitism wherever it raises its ugly head.”
Both gaffes came after Biden made headlines just last week for flubbing his lines during a speech at the White House.
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During the address, Biden read what was seemingly meant to be a direction out loud off a teleprompter. The president was meant to be speaking on actions the administration planned to take in light of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. Vice President Kamala Harris and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra were with him at the time.
“End of quote. Repeat the line,” Biden said.
In June, Biden got his countries mixed up during a NATO summit in Spain.
“Some of the American press will remember when I got a phone call from the leader of Finland saying could he come and see me,” Biden said at the time. “He came the next day and said, ‘Will you support my joining, my country joining NATO?’ We got on the telephone, and he suggested we call the leader of, of Switzerland — Switzerland, my goodness. I’m getting really anxious here about expanding NATO — of Sweden.”
Throughout the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Biden has made key mistakes that teetered on the edge of threats, particularly toward Russian President Vladimir Putin. Biden called Putin a “war criminal” in front of a group of reporters in March, later going further and insisting that the Russian leader “cannot remain in power.”
Later, months into the conflict, Biden asserted, contrary to U.S. policy, that the United States would involve its military if a similar conflict arose between China and Taiwan.
“You didn’t want to get involved in the Ukraine conflict militarily for obvious reasons. Are you willing to get involved militarily to defend Taiwan if it comes to that?” a reporter asked Biden in May.
“Yes,” Biden said.
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“You are?” the reporter asked again, to which Biden replied, “That’s the commitment we made.”
Biden reportedly has plans to run for reelection in 2024, despite voters’ confidence in him dropping and his own party seemingly desperate to get rid of him.
