The video with the forgetful American president went viral on social networks.
US President Joe Biden could not remember the last name of Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin , when naming black Americans appointed to high positions. After a short pause, he simply called him “the black man.”
This embarrassment occurred during an interview with the owner of the White House on Black Entertainment Television (BET).
During the call, Biden told journalist Ed Gordon that he was “infatuated” with appointing black people to high government positions.
In this context, he remembered the appointment of the head of the Pentagon, but hesitated and looked away, as if remembering his last name.
After that, Joe Biden started talking about Katanji Brown Jackson, the black woman he nominated to the Supreme Court in 2022.
Some social media users spread a fragment of this interview and soon this video went viral.
However, not everyone accuses Biden of forgetfulness.
“I think people are taking this clip the wrong way. If you listen closely, Biden appears to be saying 'Secretary of Defense is a black man,' and the context is that he is listing his black appointees,” he wrote one of the commentators on Twitter.
Recall that earlier the President of the United States Joe Biden, passing the floor on stage to the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky, mistakenly called him “Putin.” This happened during the American leader’s speech at the Ukraine Compact events on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Washington. The American leader immediately realized the mistake and corrected himself.
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