Biden says he’s still campaigning despite confusing Zelensky with Putin and Harris with Trump

Despite the criticism, Biden expressed confidence that he could beat Trump. “I beat him once and I’ll do it again.”he said, while considering that it is not “unusual” that there are doubts about his candidacy at this point in the presidential race.

Slips of the tongue with the names of leaders

The press conference, however, got off to a bad start. Biden was coming from a NATO summit event where He had mistakenly called the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, “President Putin”when he presented it to an audience. He quickly corrected himself, but the error had an immediate impact in the media.

At the press conference, right at the start, He made another lapse when he mistakenly called his vice president, Kamala Harris, “Trump”.

“I would not have chosen Vice President Trump as vice president if I believed she was not qualified to be president,” he said, in response to a question about whether Harris would be ready to take over the presidency if necessary.

Trump immediately took advantage of these two mistakes to mock Biden.n in a series of posts on the social media site Truth Social. “Great job Joe,” the Republican wrote alongside a clip showing the moment Biden mistook Harris for Trump.

“Crooked Joe has a bad case of Trump Derangement Syndrome,” the Republican wrote.