President Joe Biden delivered a speech Tuesday in which his mistakes overshadowed his message.
Campaigning in Florida to herald the successes of his administration’s inflation-reducing bill and potential Republican threats to repeal popular systems like Social Security, the 79-year-old Democrat made many dubious claims and missteps that temporarily gained momentum on the web and drowned out his closing arguments in contentious status.
Among the mistakes: a misrepresentation of the cause and position of his son’s death, a misreference to Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz as a “senator,” and a claim that he talked to the other people who invented insulin, which he temporarily disputed through conservative commentators.
Others called him for employing a similar salad of words used by his predecessor, Donald Trump, to explain inflation, which he falsely claimed was among the “lowest in the world. “(Data from the World Economic Forum shows it’s not even close to happening. )
“That’s what I call inflation,” he said. End of the month. What you have left. You have no money. It’s inflation. What do you have, the things you need. Are they increasing? Are. They are. “
Biden: “That’s what I call inflation. The end of the month. What you have left. You have no money. It’s inflation. What do you have, the things you need? Are. They are. pic. twitter. com/2QMsYQ2USO
Explaining the cause of inflation, he pointed to the “war in Iraq” before correcting itself in Ukraine, saying at one point after thinking about Iraq “because my son died there. “
While his son, Beau, was serving in Iraq, he died of brain cancer six years after his deployment ended (the president noted this some time later, on a line about the maximum charge for drugs needed to treat his condition).
Is Joe Biden so lost and lost that he thinks his son died in Iraq?He said it today. Sadly, her son died of brain cancer six years AFTER serving in Iraq. You want professional help.
A minor mistake occurred at the beginning of the speech when he referred to the recent hurricane wreaking havoc in Florida, Hurricane Ian, as “Hurricane Ivan,” the 2004 typhoon that caused severe damage in the Caribbean and made landfall in Alabama.
However, one disputed claim was plausible. Speaking of the law he had worked on to limit the insulin co-pay charge to $35 in his federal aid program, Biden noted that its inventors, James Collip and Charles Best, first sold the patent to the University of Toronto for $1 because it was sought by everyone to access it.
However, the problem is that Collip died in 1948 and Best in 1978, five years after Biden was elected to the U. S. Senate.
Joe Biden says he talked to the guy who invented insulin. I Googled it and the two guys who invented insulin died in 1948 and 1978, so it’s up to you juzgar. pic. twitter. com/Th2wqZBUpT
The speech came a day after a viral video in which Biden said a crusade in Pennsylvania prevents the United States from having “54 states” instead of 50.
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