This is something … President Joe Biden is going after the press for hammering him on mixing up a couple of names. As you know, at his "big boy" press conference this week, Biden introduced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as "President Putin" and said that he'd selected Vice President Trump because he knew he could do the job.
At least Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are alive. In one week back in February, Biden mistook French President Emmanuel Macron for François Mitterrand, who died in 1996, and former German Chancellor Angela Merkel for Helmut Kohl, who died in 2017.
MSNBC's Joy Reid thinks it's no big deal; she mixes up names too.
Biden went after the media for pouncing on his misspeaking and got the crowd booing the press:
Biden crowd begins booing reporters during this riff.
— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) July 13, 2024
“The press has been hammering me because I sometimes confuse names. I say that’s Charlie instead of Bill. pic.twitter.com/AVC7n9R0zj
It's probably best not to bring that up at all.
And sometimes I say I've had conversations with people who have been dead for years. Decades, even.
— Name cannot be blank (@realchrishynes) July 13, 2024
First, he promises to close the border, then he gets painted orange, and now he’s attacking the press. He’s turning into Trump.
— Josh Centers (@jcenters) July 13, 2024
Oh weird. Are we going to see great declarations from journalists tomorrow about how dangerous this attack on the press is?
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 13, 2024
If not why not? https://t.co/AUdemyqz9a
This is an assault on the first amendment. I’m outraged. 😆
— Courtland Martens (@Courtland_IRL) July 13, 2024
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Where’s @Acosta screaming about this being an attack on the press?
— Wade Brazoswood (@wadebrazoswood) July 13, 2024
“But guess what?….”
— Wallys Haircomb (@WallysHaircomb) July 13, 2024
I’m so tired of this insufferable idiot.
Who are Charlie and Bill.
— I_got_questions (@Igotquesti88413) July 13, 2024
FFS, he thinks this is a pic of Trump and Putin. 😂 pic.twitter.com/nbX6Z89KKB
I remember being lectured by journalists that when a politician attacks the press it literally puts democracy in danger
— Conspiracy Therapy (@conspiretherapy) July 13, 2024
“Sometimes I say Charlie instead of Bill.”
— Dr. Mean Tweet (@Dr_Mean_Tweet) July 13, 2024
Yeah, that’s an accurate summary.
That's what we thought. Who even knows who Charlie and Bill are … no wonder he mixes up their names.
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