Biden’s New Gaffes: Swaps Putin and Zelensky, Harris and Trump

The eyes of the world were fixed on Joe Biden’s press conference at the end of the NATO summit in Washington, DC. For 8 months, since the summit with Xi Jinping, the President of the United States did not appear alone to speak to the press and was under all sorts of pressure after the disastrous debate against Donald Trump.

Those who expected more gaffes from the president were immediately pleased: when introducing Zelensky, he referred to him as “President Putin” and then spoke of “Vice President Trump” instead of Kamala Harris. Although he immediately noticed his blunders and joked about them, and despite the fact that he gave, according to the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, “convincing answers on many foreign policy issues,” there is still talk of replacing him in view of the November 5, 2024 presidential election.

Particularly significant, analysts say, is an editorial signed by popular actor George Clooney in the New York Times asking Biden to leave. Clooney is very close to the president, as well as key Democratic Party financiers, and supported the campaigns of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden in 2020, using his fame and his Hollywood connections. Clooney talks about attending the Biden fundraising on June 16. Just one night raised $30 million dollars, but according to Clooney, that night the president “was not the same as he was four years ago, he was the one we all saw at the debate.”

Moreover, the article was allegedly reported to Barack Obama, who, according to Politico, did not praise it, but also did not object to its publication, the latter being a very significant fact.

The circle seems to be narrowing, but the president isn’t giving up: “I’m here to finish the job. I’m determined to run the race. I’m confident I can beat Trump the second time, he doesn’t do anything, he plays golf,” and, again: “European allies told me to win. No one told me I shouldn’t run in the race.”