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?’”
“And I looked at him, and the chancellor of Germany said, ‘What would you say, Mr. President, if you picked up the paper tomorrow in the London Times and the London Times said a thousand people had broken into the House of Commons to ‘stop the election of the prime minister’?” Biden added, referring to Angela Merkel, who served as the chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021.
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About 52% of voters have expressed they were “very concerned” about Biden’s cognitive health affecting his ability to serve a second term, according to a September poll from NewsNation-Decision Desk HQ. Comparatively, around 38% of voters say the same for former President Donald Trump, 77, who appeared to mix up his GOP rival, Nikki Haley, with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) at a rally in New Hampshire in January.
The Washington Examiner reached out to the Biden campaign for comment.
