I often wonder what the rest of the world thinks about Joe Biden when its leaders are meeting with him. We see clips of the meetings and hear the formal remarks. But there's also the little interactions and the meetings behind the scenes that we don't see. If Biden is so bad in the clips we do see, how bad are those things behind the scenes? It's part of the reason that the polls are now so terrible for Biden, with former President Donald Trump now leading, and many Americans giving Biden historically bad numbers.
Joe Biden had a Pacific Islands Forum meeting on Monday and it was just a mess. How do you get what you're saying wrong when you're directly reading it from a prepared speech? I don't know, but somehow Biden manages to do it while embarrassing himself and us in the process.
Biden started badly, saying that they'd signed "a new economic agreement with Micronesia and Puala." The country he was referring to is Palau. If he can't even get the name of the country he's entering an agreement with straight, what must they think of us?
Then he made a bizarre comment about the prime minister from the Cook Islands, Mark Brown.
BIDEN: "That's why the United States is formally establishing diplomatic relations with the Cook Islands — and the real reason is we're both from Baltimore" pic.twitter.com/qQhysxQqkt
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 25, 2023
"And that’s why the United States is formally establishing diplomatic relations with the Cook Islands," Biden said. "And the real reason is: We’re both from Baltimore." People laughed uneasily and the Cook Islands leader looked baffled. "That’s a long story, but — but, all kidding aside, the Cook Islands and Niue," Biden finished, not explaining what he was saying
Biden is from Scranton and Delaware. Brown was born in the Cook Islands and went to school in New Zealand. He doesn't appear to have any connection to Baltimore. It's also not clear why that would be a reason for entering diplomatic relations even if it were true. But that's Joe Biden, the Black Puerto Rican civil rights activist truck driver.
Biden couldn't even get the name of the agreement right or the amount of money it involved.
BIDEN: "We're working with Congress to invest $40 billion in our Pacific Island's Infrastructure Initiative. We call it the P G, P I— anyway, doesn't matter what we call it, but that's what it is" pic.twitter.com/uf3ol2uaoH
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 25, 2023
"We're working with Congress to invest $40 billion in our Pacific Island's Infrastructure Initiative. We call it the P G, P I— anyway, doesn't matter what we call it, but that's what it is," Biden offered, just giving up when he couldn't get it right. It also was 40 million, not 40 billion as Biden said.
When he finished reading his prepared script, he got confused about what was supposed to happen next. He had to ask Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
"I think I'm now turning this over to the Cook Islands or am I turning it to you?" Biden asks his secretary of state.
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 25, 2023
"Mr. President, uhh, Mr. Prime Minister, the floor is yours" pic.twitter.com/kLGYm7v2T9
"I think I'm now turning this over to the Cook Islands or am I turning it to you?" Biden said. Then he botched Brown's title, "Mr. President, uhh, Mr. Prime Minister, the floor is yours"
Biden then finished off the meeting with a bizarre comment during the leader line-up photo op about this trip to Detroit to the UAW strike.
"What's your message to car companies before you go to Detroit?"
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 25, 2023
BIDEN (confused): "Stay under the speed limit" pic.twitter.com/o6g5DohBFk
He has no idea what they are asking him and why. All he managed to digest was cars, so he came out with that weird comment.
If that wasn't embarrassing enough, he capped off the day with this weird comment during an HBCU meeting saying he heard things were said on the "internet," sounding like he was about 100 years old.
BIDEN (mumbling): "Folks have the audacity to say I cut funding for— I saw, heard something on one of the, uh, on the internet, that I cut funding for HBCUs, but that's the furthest thing from the truth. Then again, a lot on the internet." pic.twitter.com/Mz9dJmlvjx
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 26, 2023
This is the Democrats' candidate. They put all of us in danger by having this guy in office and running again.
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