Friday, July 5, 2024 - U.S. President Joe Biden stumbled over his words during an interview describing himself as a black woman during a radio interview, as calls mount for the 81-year-old US leader to drop his re-election bid.
Biden stumbled over his words during an
interview with Philadelphia’s WURD, seemingly mixing himself up with his Vice
President Kamala Harris.
“By the way,
I’m proud to be, as I said, the first vice president, first black woman... to
serve with a black president. Proud to be involved of the first black woman on
the Supreme Court. There’s so much that we can do because, look... we’re the
United States of America,” he said.
Biden appeared to be talking about his
appointment of Kamala Harris as the United States’ first black female vice
president.
Biden himself was previously vice
president, which is likely what he was referring to when he said “to serve with
a black president”.
The reference to the Supreme Court is Ketanji Brown-Jackson, the first black
female justice, who was appointed by Biden in 2022.
The gaffe comes as President Biden
told a gathering of nearly two dozen Democratic governors at the White House on
Wednesday night that he needs to get more sleep and work fewer hours and even
avoid events held after 8pm with reports that he can only handle the rigours of
the job between 10am and 4pm as reported by The New York Times.
During the same gathering, the outlet
reported, Biden responded to a question from Hawaii Governor Josh Green about
his health by saying while his health was fine, the problem was “just my
brain”, an apparent attempt at humour that went unrecognised by at least one
state leader in the room.
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NEW: President Biden goes on incredibly confusing rant, calls himself the first black woman to serve with a black president.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 4, 2024
He also called himself the “first president that got elected statewide in the state of Delaware, when I was a kid.”
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