No one had any clue what Joe Biden was talking about.
He told a crowd that one famous football coach had died.
But it turned out he had imagined the whole thing.
Joe Biden is having a harder and harder time remembering things, both in public and private settings.
For example, he forgot the name of Hamas at a recent press conference. According to the New York Post, “President Biden has sparked fresh alarm by appearing to get lost during his latest press conference — even forgetting the name Hamas.”
He also thought that the president of France was a man who has been dead since 1996.
The Hill reported in February that “President Biden on Sunday appeared to mix up French President Emmanuel Macron with François Mitterrand, the former president of France who died in 1996.”
These incidents are also apparently taking place in private as well. As special counsel Robert Hur reported, Biden has serious memory problems.
The Associated Press wrote in a February article, “The report described the 81-year-old Democrat’s memory as ‘hazy,’ ‘fuzzy,’ ‘faulty,’ ‘poor’ and having ‘significant limitations.’”
Now, these memory issues have popped up again in a very public way. Biden was delivering the State of the Union and was attempting to talk about the murder of Laken Riley, a Georgia college student who was killed by an illegal immigrant.
However, Biden got confused and thought the person who died was Lincoln Riley, the USC head football coach who has coached numerous Heisman Trophy winners.
According to Fox News, “President Biden was ridiculed Thursday following the State of the Union after he appeared to slip up while speaking the name of the slain Georgia student who was allegedly murdered by a Venezuelan illegal immigrant who had come across the Mexican border.”
“As Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. — wearing a red MAGA hat — shouted “say her name” toward the president, Biden responded by lamenting the young woman’s death but appeared to refer to her as ‘Lincoln Riley’ — who is the coach of the University of Southern California Trojans football team.”
It was an ugly mistake, as Lincoln Riley is still alive and well, and had no business being brought up in that context in a speech in front of the entire nation.
Lincoln Riley and his family certainly did not need the unwanted attention and publicity that surely came with the president bringing his name up, even if on accident.
But it’s yet another example of Biden’s memory causing him to make bizarre mistakes in very public settings.
And it makes the United States government look weak at a time when countries like China and Russia are trying to spread their authoritarian ideologies around the world.
If Joe Biden can’t even tell the difference between a young female college student and a college football coach, he has no business running the country.