At this point, you have to wonder if Biden’s toes are sore from trampling his own feet all the time.
At one point during a sit-down interview with BET that aired Wednesday, President Joe Biden appeared to forget Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s name, instead calling him “the black man” in a a painfully awkward moment that quickly went viral online.
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“And so, it's all about, it's all about treating people with dignity. It's about making sure that—look. I mean, for example, look at the heat I'm getting because I named uh, the secretary of defense, the Black man, I named Ketanji Brown, I mean, because of the people I've named,” Biden said.
Biden can’t remember Sec of Defense Lloyd Austin’s name - calls him “the black man.”
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) July 18, 2024
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Then again, Joe Biden can barely remember his own name most days, so there’s that.
