US President Biden confuses Ukrainians with Hungarians and Russians
US President Joe Biden gave a speech earlier this week at a facility that manufactures anti-tank missiles in Alabama. In many instances, Biden made serious mistakes in his speech, confusing Ukrainians with Hungarians and Ukraine with Russia.
The President of the United States, Joe Biden, turns 80 this year. Many have been concerned about his mental well-being – not unreasonably. Oftentimes, he makes mistakes in his speeches that are more serious than what one should let themselves make as the President of the United States.
Did Russia receive Javelins? Or did Ukraine?
This time, Biden gave a speech about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and how the United States helped Ukraine defend itself. However, at one point during the 16-minute-long speech, as the New York Post reports, he said that the United States “made sure Russia had Javelins” (Javelins are anti-tank missiles – ed.) and how the “Hungarian” resistance was successful against Russia.
“Before Russia attacked, we made sure Russia had Javelins and other weapons to strengthen their defences so Ukraine was ready for whatever happened,”
the President said at one point during his speech in the Alabama facility where those Javelins are, in fact, made.
After this, Biden talked about a Hungarian fighter fighting against the Russian invasion.
“Just a few days ago, the Wall Street Journal quoted a young Hungarian fighter saying ‘Without the Javelins, it would have been very hard to stop the enemy pushing ahead.’”
As for the fighter he was talking about, the Wall Street Journal reported him as a private first class named Oleksandr in Ukraine’s 128th Separate Mountain Assault Transcarpathian Brigade. There was no mention of him being Hungarian.
He is prone to make mistakes
At the start of his speech, Biden made a remark about how he is aware that he has a tendency to stumble and misspeak during his speeches.
“Every once in a while I make a mistake, not like, well, once a speech,”
he said, after which he made not one but two major mistakes when talking about the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
Source: New York Post
4 Comments
It is pretty easy to confuse Putin with ‘Son of Putin’, known as Orbán.
Senility cannot be hidden easily.
Jesus, Joseph and Mary!
EVERYONE of us can get confused. We, the public, don’t know the circumstances prior to that speech, we don’t know how many hours Pres. Biden slept the night before, etc, etc.
I’m in my mid-thirties, and at times I get confused. There is NOT a single politician who has not been confused during one or more public speeches – not Putin, not Orban, not Gyurcsany, not Macron, and not even Xi Jinping. It happens to the best of us (and them).
One thing for sure, is that Pres. Biden has a speech disorder since childhood, and who knows, in order to counter that, the end result is confusion.
If there was something genuinely serious about his mental competency, then he would not be making so many speeches, and we’d be seeing much more of Vp Harris in the spotlight.
@Nin
Exactly, totally agree. Everyone gets confused, we’re only human, plus I believe Mr Biden has a stammer so he’s had that to control throughout his life.
Boris Johnson started rambling about Pepper Pig in one of his speeches, all he had to do was read from a script but somehow lost his place! Now that was embarrassing as he was speaking to the Confederation of British Industry. Think one could have heard a pin drop 😬