The gaffe is reminiscent of the one Biden made on Sunday, when Biden claimed that he had spoken to Francois Mitterrand, a French president who died in the year 1996 during the same conference.
President Biden said he had a conversation with former German Minister of Finance Helmut Kohl, who died in the year 2021 in 2017, as he recalled conversations he had with him during the fundraising event on Wednesday. This is Biden’s second gaffe of the week.
Biden was present at three of the campaign’s reception occasions at New York Wednesday afternoon, according to his schedule. In his third and second receptions the former vice president spoke to supporters about the conversations that took place on the date of Jan. 6th, 2021 at his very first Group of Seven (G7) meeting as president. This meeting was held within England during June the same year.
The president claimed his late German the Chancellor Kohl wanted to know what he’d tell him if he found out that 1,000 protesters gathered at the British Parliament in a bid to prevent new prime ministers becoming prime minister.
The annual gathering wasn’t attended by Kohl who was dead for 4 years, but instead by the former German the Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The blunder on Wednesday was similar to the mistake Biden made on Sunday when Biden claimed that he had spoken to Francois Mitterrand, a French president who died in the year 1996 during the same G7 meeting.
“I sat down, and I said, ‘America’s back,'” Biden said to the Las Vegas crowd. “And Mitterrand from Germany -I’m talking about France was looking at me and told me that …”
Biden later gathered his thoughts and formulated this sentence “Well, how long are you back for?”
The latest incidents are just one of a string of bizarre comments made by Biden concerning dead people.
In one instance Biden said to supporters during an event in 2022 at Hallandale Beach, Florida, that he talked to the person whom he believes “invented” insulin.
“How many of you know somebody with diabetes and needs insulin?” Biden asked the audience. “Do you know how much it costs to make that insulin drug for diabetes? … It was invented by a man who did not patent it because he wanted it available for everyone. I spoke to him, OK?”
When Biden became a man in the year 1942, co-discoverers of insulin Frederick Banting and John Macleod were dead. Charles Best and James Collip Two more insulin co-discoverers, lived for many years following Biden had been born however they were not listed as inventors on the patent. This is in contradiction to his assertion.
A few hours prior to the Florida ceremony, Biden was speaking at an event in September 2022 at the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health, and he was in the crowd to pay tribute to the former Indiana Republican Rep. Jackie Walorski who passed away in a crash with a car one month earlier.
“I want to thank all of you here, including bipartisan elected officials like … Senator Braun, Senator Booker, Representative … Jackie… Are you here? Where’s Jackie?” Biden stated while looking for her. “I don’t think [inaudible] she was going to be here.”
Biden also stated to the group of donors in his presidential campaign in 2019 that the former British Premier Margaret Thatcher, who died in 2013, was anxious regarding America with Trump. After people were able to point out the error, Biden described it as an “Freudian slip” and said the words he intended to use were British prime minister Theresa May.