President Joe Biden stumbled as he made his way up the stairs of Air Force One Friday—marking the latest incident to raise questions about the 80-year-old president’s physical and mental faculties as his extensive record of factual errors, jumbled words and cringe-worthy comments have increasingly been used by critics to argue he’s too old to serve another term.
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Key Facts
July 14, Tripping On The Steps of Air Force One: Biden briefly lost his footing while walking up a set of stairs to board the presidential plane Friday in Finland, then quickly recovered before waving to the crowd below from the entrance of the plane, following a two-day NATO meeting in Lithuania.
June 29, Walking Off MSNBC Set: Biden awkwardly rose from his chair and walked off the set of a live MSNBC interview with Nicole Wallace before she had the chance to close the segment.
June 27, Confusing Iraq and Ukraine: The president mixed up the countries in interviews twice in a matter of 24 hours: Speaking about NATO’s support for Ukraine, he referred to Russia’s attacks as an “onslaught on Iraq” at a fundraiser in Maryland, and a day later told reporters Putin is “clearly losing the war in Iraq”—not the first time the president has confused the two wars: in November, he blamed inflation on “a war in Iraq . . .excuse me, the war in Ukraine” he said during a speech in South Florida.
June 27, Calling Modi the leader of China: At the same June fundraiser in Maryland, Biden called Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi the leader “of a little country that’s now the largest in the world, China,” before quickly correcting himself: “excuse me . . . India.”
June 16, Referencing royalty: Biden ended remarks in Connecticut about gun control with the phrase “God save the queen, man,” baffling his own White House deputy press secretary Olivia Dalton, who told reporters in an email she was unsure what the comment meant and that Biden was speaking to someone in the crowd.
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