New gaffe for US President Joe Biden.
The Washington leader has in fact exchanged German Chancellor Angela Merkel with her predecessor Helmut Kohl , who died in 2017.
It happened at the G7 in Cornwall, during which, telling an anecdote, the 81-year-old president recalled that «after having declared to the leaders that America is back, the German Helmut Kohl turned and said to me: “President who would what if tomorrow you opened the Times and read that 1,000 people broke into parliament?". But the protagonist of the story was not Khol, but rather the former German chancellor.
This is the second slip of the tongue in 24 hours by Biden who, recently, has appeared cloudy and tired even when faced with questions from journalists following him to the White House.
Earlier, speaking at a campaign event in Las Vegas, Biden had confused French President Emmanuel Macron with one of his predecessors at the Elysée, François Mitterrand, who died in 1996.
Again, last June he defined Chinese President Xi Jinping as a "dictator" and, again in those days, he confused the war in Ukraine with that in Iraq by declaring that "Putin is clearly losing the Iraqi conflict".
(Unioneonline/lf)
