Biden Mixes Up Angela Merkel With Dead German Leader—In Second Slip-Up This Week
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Trump later claimed he was intentionally mixing them up key background Biden has had a series of physical and verbal slip-ups throughout his presidency, which critics ...

Biden, 81, recalled a 2021 conversation with world leaders regarding the Jan. 6 riots:

“And then Helmut Kohl turned to me and said, ‘What would you say, Mr. President, if you picked up the London Times and learned that 1,000 people had broken down the doors of the British parliament, killed some bobbies on the way in, to deny the prime minister to take office?"

Kohl served as Germany’s chancellor from 1982 to 1998 and died in 2017. Merkel was the country’s leader at the time of Biden’s conversation.

(He made this same mistake twice in the same meeting)

Earlier this week, Biden confused French President Emmanuel Macron with late President François Mitterrand—who led the country from 1981 to 1995 and died in 1996

Biden claimed he declared “America is back” in 2021, and “Mitterrand from Germany — I mean France — looked at me and said, ‘How long you back for?’”