Biden says that his “memory is good” but he gets confused again, this time with AMLO

The American president, Joe Bidenvisibly angry, stated Thursday in a speech to the nation that he has no memory problems, after a special prosecutor’s report described him as “a well-intentioned old man with a bad memory”.

“I’m well-intentioned, I’m an old man and I know what I’m doing.. I am president and I will put this country back on its feet.“, he claimed.

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“my memory is good”he said, very angry that the report mentions that he forgot the day of his son Beau’s death. “How the hell dare you?”he protested.

But at the end of the speech he made a mistake when talking about the Egyptian president, Abdel Fatah al Sisiand he said it was from Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obradorbetter known as AMLO.

“I think, as you know, initially the president of Mexico, Sisi, did not want to open the door to allow humanitarian aid in.“, he declared, referring to the border post of RafahThat separates Egypt of Loop.

This is the third time it has happened in just a few days.

On Wednesday night he mentioned at a rally that he had a conversation in 2021 with the former German chancellor Helmut Kohldied in 2017.

On Sunday he cited a talk he supposedly had in 2021 with the former French president François Mitterrand.

Your spokesperson, Karine Jean-Pierrewithout directly saying that the president had made a mistake, cited examples of American figures who had mixed up names in this way, including herself.

“Many people, deputies (…) can make mistakes from time to time”, he said in a daily press conference this Thursday.

The age of Joe Biden and his gaffes worry voters, according to polls.

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Polls show they are less concerned about donald trumpwho is 77 years old and is also a presidential candidate in November.

But the former Republican president has also been wrong several times.

In a speech in January, he confused his rival for the Republican nomination, Nikki Haleywith the former president of the House of Representatives, the Democrat Nancy Pelosi.

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