Yesterday we told you about Bloomberg Quicktake tweeting out a video showing Presiden Biden, during a virtual meeting with the British and Australian prime ministers, referring to the latter as “that fella down under.”
EARLIER: "Thank you, Boris. And I want to thank #ThatFellaDownUnder."
Here's the moment Biden appears to forget Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison's name during a press conference to unveil a new security partnership https://t.co/MdLcZ33HDr pic.twitter.com/tzwE1pwTk5
— Bloomberg Quicktake (@Quicktake) September 16, 2021
Now the Associated Press is reporting the following:
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday rejected Chinese criticism of Australia’s new nuclear submarine alliance with the United States and said he doesn’t mind that President Joe Biden might have forgotten his name https://t.co/7RUwFmYKtY
— Julie Pace (@JuliePace) September 17, 2021
“The president referred to the Australian as ‘pal’ and ‘that fellow Down Under.’ Biden didn’t use Morrison’s name, while he referred to Johnson as ‘Boris.’” https://t.co/UQvQvBEluF
— Marc Levy (@timelywriter) September 17, 2021
Quite the back half to this lede https://t.co/4LLT0LERiV
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) September 17, 2021
That’s something else.
— Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) September 17, 2021
Tim Apple could not be reached for comment https://t.co/nfkQBSAjrj
— Tom Weber (@tweber) September 17, 2021
There are many defending Biden on this, claiming he was just being folksy and didn’t really forget Morrison’s name. But if this had been Trump there would have been even more cries of of “25th Amendment!”
