Sacre bleu: Biden mixes up French leader Macron with Mitterrand, who has been dead for 28 years

Published February 5, 2024 6:23pm ET



President Joe Biden appeared to have his latest mix-up on Sunday, mistaking an encounter with French President Emmanuel Macron with the country’s former leader, François Mitterrand, who has been dead for nearly 30 years.

During Biden’s campaign rally in Las Vegas on Sunday evening, Biden recounted meeting leaders of G7 countries in 2021 in Cornwall, England. He mentioned speaking to “Mitterand from Germany,” who was president of France from 1981 to 1995 before passing away in 1996.

“Right after I was elected, I went to what they call a G7 meeting, all the NATO leaders,” Biden, 81, said. “I sat down, and I said, ‘America is back,’ and Mitterand from Germany — I mean France — looked at me and said, said, ‘You know, why, how long you back for?’”

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