After several slips of the tongue in the middle of a high-profile press conference in Washington on Thursday at the end of the 75th NATO summit. US President Joe Biden Citing his medical examination reports, he said he was ‘perfectly healthy’ and the ‘fittest’ American to be the country’s next president.
In this press conference, Joe Biden not only mistakenly called US Vice President Kamala Harris ‘Vice President TrumpHe said, but on one occasion, he also introduced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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United States President Joe Biden stood behind the podium with a microphone and said: ‘I would now like to turn it over to the President of Ukraine, who is as courageous as he is determined. Ladies and Gentlemen, President Putin.’
However, he quickly corrected his mistake, saying: ‘I’m very focused on defeating President Putin, that’s what we should be worrying regarding.’
US President Joe Biden, who has faced severe criticism regarding his mental health, mistakenly called his Vice President Kamala Harris ‘Vice President Trump’ at one point during a press conference.
When asked whether Kamala Harris might beat Donald Trump if he decided not to run for president once more, Joe Biden said: ‘If I don’t think she’s qualified to be president, I will. The Vice President would not have chosen Trump as Vice President.’
After taking the name of Trump instead of Kamala Harris, the US President may not even realize his mistake and he continued his sentence by saying that he is “the most” to face Donald Trump in the presidential election in November. Eligible are Americans.
Biden said: ‘In my opinion, I am the most qualified person to run for president. I defeated them once and I will defeat them once more.’
“I am not fighting for my legacy,” he added, “but to finish what I started.”
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump mocked Joe Biden following the American president slipped his tongue in a press conference and said on his Truth Social website that “Joe (Biden) started his ‘big boy’ press conference by saying that I would not have chosen Vice President Trump as Vice President. Great job, Joe!’
US President Joe Biden addresses a news conference at the end of the 75th NATO Summit at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington on July 11, 2024 (AFP)
US President Joe Biden admitted during a press conference that he is concerned regarding his mental health, saying he is focused on reassuring Democrats amid growing calls to withdraw from the November presidential election.
Speaking to reporters, he said: ‘I am determined to contest the election but I think it is important that I address concerns.’
Joe Biden, who is trying to allay concerns regarding his mental capacity during his re-election bid, said a neurological exam showed he was in ‘good health’.
He said: ‘I’ve had three neurological tests with a neurologist’, the most recent in February. ‘And they say I’m fine.’
He also denied that ‘they have to sleep at eight o’clock at night.’
He said that reports of him sleeping early were ‘not true’. ‘It would be better to have a bit of balance in my daily life, instead of getting up at seven in the morning and going to bed at midnight every day.’
The US president said on Thursday that US allies at the NATO summit told him that another Donald Trump presidency would be ‘disastrous’.
Joe Biden told reporters: ‘None of my European allies came and said, ‘Joe, don’t run.’ I hear them say you have to win. You cannot pass this man (Trump), he will be a disaster.’
He said that following becoming president for the second time, he is ready to settle matters with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Talking to reporters at the White House, he said, “I am ready to deal with them now and three years from now.” There is no world leader I am not prepared to deal with.’
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2024-07-12 09:50:48