'Freudian Slip': Biden Confuses Trump With Obama in New Gaffe
02:02 GMT 29.07.2021 (Updated: 08:57 GMT 15.11.2022)
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The 78-year-old American president is known to be prone to verbal gaffes and slips of the tongue, for which he is usually criticized or mocked by some people on social media.
US President Joe Biden appeared to confuse former US President Barack Obama for another former US president, Donald Trump, in a Wednesday speech, but swiftly corrected himself and suggested that the mistake was a "Freudian slip".
"Back in 2009, during the so-called Great Recession, the president asked me to be in charge of managing that piece, then-President Trump," Biden said while addressing the public in Pennsylvania. "Excuse me, Freudian slip, that was the last president. He caused the...anyway, President Obama, when I was vice-president."
Apparently, Biden briefly messed up the timeline, confusing his predecessor, Trump, with the 44th US president, Obama. Even his quick apology did not prevent social media users from picking up on his gaffe.
His time in Washington is a Freudian Slip https://t.co/cRJAHriza4
— Defund the MSM (@JLarey83) July 28, 2021
#Trump living rent free in his head 🤣🤣🤣
— Mr Steven Brown 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 (@dog_rodger) July 28, 2021
Today Biden confused Obama and Trump.
— Yesi (@yesisworld) July 29, 2021
Let’s hope tomorrow he doesn’t confuse Kamala and Jill.
Some suggested that since a Freudian slip occurs as an action inspired by an internal train of thought or unconscious wish, it was Biden "dreaming" about working with Trump rather than Obama.
You probably wish you'd been working with President Trump rather than Obama. You'd have been treated better.
— AmericanaMade (@americana_made) July 28, 2021
Others argued that the 46th president does not know what a Freudian slip really is.
I feel like Joe Biden might not know what a “Freudian slip” is 🤨 https://t.co/HgzYXiIDl4
— Abigail Marone (@abigailmarone) July 28, 2021
Biden was in Pennsylvania on Wednesday speaking at a Mack Truck assembly plant in Lehigh Valley, promoting his administration's new measures to encourage US citizens and companies to "buy American". Particularly, he announced plans to modify the 1933 Buy American Act that requires federal firms and agencies to purchase goods that have at least 55% US-made components.
Under the Biden plan, the threshold will be increased to 65% by 2024 and to 75% by 2029.
