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Joe Biden was brutally mocked after an embarrassing moment during an interview with NBC News.
Biden repeatedly forgot the name of a country that he was trying to remember.
There are widespread concerns among Americans who fear 79-year-old Biden, who is the oldest president in U.S. history, is showing alarming signs of dementia. This clip certainly isn’t helping to ease concerns. Watch below for yourself:
Biden: "And there is no way we were ever going to unite Ukraine…I mean excuse me Iraq…Afghanistan." pic.twitter.com/QfZ67Hyp45
— Tommy Pigott (@TommyPigott) February 11, 2022
Host Lester Holt asked if Biden was told regarding Afghanistan that his administration was “prepared” to pull out at the right time.
Biden responded, “No. What I was told, no one told me that, look, there was no good time to get out.”
“But if we had not gotten out, they acknowledged that we would have had to put a hell of a lot more troops back in.”
“It wasn’t just 2,000, 4,000, we would have to significantly increase the number of troops, and we’re back in this this war of attrition.”
“And, and there was no way we were ever going to unite Ukraine, excuse me, Iraq, Afghanistan. No way that was going to happen. And so this is a much wiser thing to do.”
Republican Senator Te Cruz responded, “This man has the nuclear football.”
“If, like Biden with Afghanistan, you choose to destroy a country for no reason except the fulfilment of your own ideological whimsy, you do owe it to the country to at least remember the name,” foreign policy researcher Kyle Orton said.
“Again, far worse in full context. Biden is either a liar without remorse; a compulsive liar with no control over it; or someone in serious mental decline who can’t remember events six months ago. None really make a good case for his being President.”
“So weird that they don’t let him do more interviews!” Abigail Marone, Press Secretary for Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) responded.
Republican Governor’s Association Communications Director Jesse Hunt tweeted, “Impressive, he listed all the places where he’s been part of foreign policy failures in one sentence.”
“Barely There Biden confuses Ukraine for Iraq and Afghanistan,” Journalist Ian Miles Cheong wrote. “Soon, he will confuse whatever location’s in his head for Canada.”
