Biden’s biggest gaffes: Muddling up wars, forgetting names and dozing off mid-event

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Republican underdog Nikki Haley has repeatedly tried to break through by drawing attention to the advanced ages of her competitors, and the issue has provided plenty of material for America’s late-night TV hosts, with Stephen Colbert recently joking that President Biden’s South Carolina primary vote count would also serve as a fine campaign slogan: “Very close to 100.” Mr Trump has certainly worked hard to suggest that his rival is too old, warning at one stage that President Biden’s propensity for gaffes could lead to nuclear war and referring to him as “a guy who can’t put two sentences together” in a February Newsmax interview. Joe Biden says Putin is 'losing the war in Iraq' ‘God save the Queen’ That same month, President Biden made another verbal gaffe when he bizarrely closed out a speech on gun control with the proclamation: “God save the Queen, man.” The president was speaking to a group of gun safety advocates at the National Safer Communities Summit in Connecticut at the time. Biden says ‘God save the Queen’ as he wraps up his gun safety speech ‘Mr President?’ When President Biden first hosted Rishi Sunak as UK prime minister at the White House in June 2023, he accidentally addressed him by his own moniker: “Mr President.” The British PM had travelled to Washington DC, for a two-day trip where the two leaders held a meeting in the Oval Office. Biden mistakenly calls Rishi Sunak ‘Mr President’ Taking flight at an Air Force graduation President Biden took another rather worrying tumble while on stage at the Air Force Academy graduation ceremony that same month.