US President Joe Biden confused Emmanuel Macron, the current French president, with Francois Mitterrand, who led France from 1981 to 1995 and died in 1996, Politico reported.
In a speech at a campaign rally in Las Vegas, while talking about the June 2021 G-7 summit in England, which Macron attended, Biden said, "As soon as I was elected, I went to the G-7 summit in southern England. I sat down and said, "America is back!" and Mitterrand from Germany - I mean France - looked at me and said, "How long have you been back?"
This is not the 81-year-old American president's first recent mistake. In July 2023, he casually said that "over 100" Americans had died from Covid-19 since the pandemic broke out. The White House later corrected that to "over 1 million."
In June, Biden - who is running for re-election and must face Republican challenger Donald Trump in November - had confused the war in Ukraine with the one in Iraq, saying Russian President Vladimir Putin was "losing the war in Iraq."
"It's hard to say, really. But he's clearly losing the war in Iraq. He's losing the war at home and has become an outsider in the world," Biden said. / BGNES
