Biden confuses Macron with dead French president
The Hindu
U.S. President Joe Biden confuses French President Macron with former French leader Mitterrand in viral video
U.S. President Joe Biden confused his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron with France's long-dead former leader Francois Mitterrand, in a speech that went viral in video footage on Monday.
Addressing a campaign event in Las Vegas on Sunday, the 81-year-old U.S. leader described Macron's reaction to a speech at a G-7 meeting in 2020.
As well as getting Mr. Macron's name wrong, he misstated the country he leads.
"And Mitterrand — Macron, from Germany — I mean, from France looked at me and said, said 'You know, what — why — how long you back for?'" Mr. Biden said, according to a White House transcript.
Mitterrand was French President from 1981 to 1995, and died in 1996.
Video of Mr. Biden's mix-up has been viewed thousands of times on X, formerly Twitter, and shared hundreds of times.
Mr. Biden has made similar public mistakes in the past, notably in September 2022 when he called on a deceased congresswoman at a conference she helped organise.
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