Joe Biden spoke today about dispensing some of the money under the infrastructure act that passed Congress last year.

Biden had appointed an “infrastructure czar” to be in charge of the effort: Mitch Landrieu, former New Orleans mayor during Hurricane Katrina. But Biden seemed to have trouble both with saying “America” and remembering what the name of the czar for the job was.

"We can do this. This is what Abearica— a better America is gonna look like."

And with Mitch Landrieu standing right next to him Biden goes:

"And the reason I asked Mitch Mc– to do this, is because he knows how to get things done."

81 million votes, guys… pic.twitter.com/rvU384d2To

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Biden said “Mitch McC–” and then stopped, seemingly almost saying “Mitch McConnell,” the Republican Senate Minority Leader.

But folks on both sides of the aisle have raised questions about Landrieu, with critics saying that he didn’t properly use the billions in federal aid for post-Katrina repairs in the city. He’s also been criticized for ‘enriching’ himself through a ‘racial justice’ non-profit since then.

If you don’t know by now, Mitch has built his career off of co-opting the work of Black organizers and is now enriching himself of his “racial justice non-profit”

Mitch Landrieu made $660,000 in two years from his racial justice nonprofit, records show | https://t.co/CiZhGLzWZy

— Anti-Racist South | Abolition Now (@antiracistsouth) January 14, 2022

Now, I’m all in for making as much as you can (honestly) in a private business. But in a non-profit, if your head guy is drawing down $330,000, someone has missed the plot here — and the purpose of where the money is supposed to be going, which is for the cause.

So, not exactly a sterling start, first with the pick of Landrieu and secondly, not even being able to remember his name.

This was similar to the day before, when Biden couldn’t read the teleprompter saying “topped” rather than “tapped,” and couldn’t pronounce the name of his testing guy. When cases are higher than ever before, that’s not a good look.

Joe Biden doesn’t even know how to pronounce the name of the guy leading his “testing program.”

“Is that right, Jeff?” pic.twitter.com/RsqFU6OXiu

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 13, 2022

Biden acknowledged during his infrastructure remarks that there was a lot of disappointment in the things they haven’t gotten done.

BIDEN: "There's a lot of talk about disappointment in things we haven't gotten done" pic.twitter.com/SZFZxO9nhO

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 14, 2022

That’s true. Unfortunately, there’s also a lot more disappointment with the things he has done, like the bad spending policies that have helped increase inflation. The White House has had a delusional response in dealing with that.

At the end of his infrastructure remarks, the press tried to ask Biden questions, including if he had a message for Vladimir Putin, as things are heating up between Russia and Ukraine, with even more concerns about a possible attack from Russia on the horizon. But Biden blew them off, doing a classic Biden move — ignoring them and/or looking out of it, then shuffling away and having no answers for anybody.

#BREAKING: President Biden ignores reporters' questions following speech on infrastructure pic.twitter.com/BQuEqgcadG

— Forbes (@Forbes) January 14, 2022