- The US president also claims that his son died in Iraq when he died of a brain tumor in the US.
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Biden's new public lapse: he confuses the war in Ukraine with the war in Iraq
The president of the United States, Joe Biden, who will turn 80 on November 20, has once again made a mistake during a public intervention.
It happened in Florida during a speech this Tuesday in which Biden was talking about inflation and, at one point, he confused the war in Ukraine with the war in Iraq: "Inflation is a world problem right now because of the war in Iraq and the impact on oil and what Russia is doing.
Biden realized his slip and corrected it at the time, but he did so by making an even more serious mistake by assuring that the confusion was the result of his thinking about his son who died in Iraq. "Sorry, I'm thinking of Iraq because that's where my son died," he said.
The reality is that his son Beau Biden did not die in Iraq, but died of a brain tumor in 2015, in a hospital in Maryland (USA), at the age of 46.
Later, in that same speech in Florida, Biden did refer to the real cause of his son's death when he spoke about social security and the price of drugs: "My son died of a stage 4 glioblastoma; the cost of those drugs It was huge."
This is not the first time that Biden has made the mistake of publicly stating that his son died in Iraq. He already did it just a few weeks ago, during a speech in Colorado on October 12: "Imagine, I mean this sincerely, I say this as the father of a man who won the Bronze Star, the service medal, and lost his life in Iraq," he said then.
In addition to these erroneous references to the death of his son, Biden has made numerous public slips in recent months, such as appearing disoriented on stage at the end of a speech or greeting people who are not in front of him at the time.
At the end of September, he also starred in another similar incident at a White House conference on nutrition and health, asking about a congresswoman who had died a month earlier in a car accident. "Jackie, are you here? Where's Jackie? She was going to be here," Biden asked, referring to Republican Congresswoman Jackie Walorski.
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