The alarms at the White House are sounding again. After Joe Biden tried to dispel concerns about his ability to lead the most powerful country in the world, the 81-year-old president has made a new mistake.
This Thursday, during the NATO summit held in Washington, when introducing the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, Biden referred to him as "President Putin", which caused immense confusion in the room, resulting in timid applause.
Moments after his serious mistake, Biden himself rectified and said he is so focused on defeating Putin, that he had been wrong.
Zelenski, for his part, took it with humor and clarified: "I am better."
The leaders of several NATO countries downplayed the slip-up.
The French President, Emmanuel Macron, expressed his support for Biden in the press conference, where he asked for "indulgence" for the American president.
After the endorsement, Biden assured that the present leaders did not ask him to end his candidacy for the November elections, but to defeat his rival, former Republican president Donald Trump.
However, Zelenski's was not the only mistake of the day.
During the question-and-answer session of the press conference, Biden made another mistake by referring to Vice President Kamala Harris as "Vice President Trump".
The incident generated immediate mockery from Trump himself. Mockery to which Biden responded in X.
"By the way: yes, I know the difference. One is legal and the other is a criminal," he wrote.
In recent months, Biden's hesitations, absent-mindedness, and verbal lapses have become increasingly frequent. Despite this, he has made it clear at all times that his intention is to run for reelection.
The actor George Clooney, a recognized Democratic activist and close friend of Joe Biden, joined in recent days those within the Democratic Party who are calling for the president to withdraw from the reelection campaign.
In an article published in the New York Times, Clooney pointed out that Biden is too old to continue leading the country and warned that if he does not step down, the Party will lose the elections.
"I love Joe Biden. As a senator. As vice president and as president. I consider him a friend and I believe in him. I believe in his character. I believe in his morals. In the last four years, he has won many of the battles he has faced. But the only battle he cannot win is the fight against time. None of us can," he wrote.
"It's devastating to say, but the Joe Biden I saw three weeks ago at the fundraising event was not the Joe Biden of 2010. It wasn't even the Joe Biden of 2020. It was the same man we all saw in the debate," he added.
The former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, also suggested to President Joe Biden to reconsider his decision to run for reelection. However, Pelosi, who is 84 years old, three years older than Biden, emphasized that she would support him "no matter what he decides."
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