US President Joe Biden during the Fourth of July celebration made no major errors in delivering brief remarks as he was reading from a teleprompter, however, at one point he appeared to go off script and called Donald Trump his colleague to make reference to a war cemetery that the former President had declined to visit while in office.
“By the way, you know, I was in that World War One cemetery in France. The one that one of our colleagues, a former president didn’t want to go…,” he said, his voice dropping to a low volume and trailing off as quoted by media reports. “I probably shouldn’t have said, anyway,” Biden added.
In addition to this, when Vice President Kamala Harris introdued him as the “extraordinary” president and called him for his speech, it looked like he confused Independence Day with Christmas and greeted, “Ho ho ho! Happy Independence Day!”
Biden: “Ho Ho Ho! Happy Independence Day!”
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In another incident, he also randomly spoke on traffic congestion and said, “One last thing, and I used to think when I was a senator, there were always congestion on the highways. There’s no congestion anymore. We go on the highway; there’s no congestion,” the President said.
President Biden makes rare address to White House visitors, without a Teleprompter.
Staffers report multiple heart attacks by fellow staffers (with caps) pic.twitter.com/db8Q3wl5kt
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