President Biden was ripped after he concluded that African American and Hispanic workers do not have “high school diplomas” in yet another embarrassing mistake.
The 80-year-old president was touting the economy at Prince George’s Community College in Maryland on Thursday when he made his latest mistake.
“We’ve seen record lows in unemployment especially — and I’ve focused on this throughout my career — especially for African American and Hispanic workers and veterans, you know, workers without a high school diploma,” he said in a televised statement.
However, according to the transcript released by the White House, there should have been the word “and” separating African American, Hispanic and veteran workers from those without a high school diploma.
Biden’s speech would later read: “We’ve seen record lows in unemployment especially — and I’ve focused on this my entire career — especially for African American and Hispanic workers and veterans, you know, and workers without a high school diploma.”
President Biden likened African American and Hispanic workers to “those without a high school diploma” in a speech on the economy on Thursday.Kyle Mazza/SOPA Images/Shutterstock
According to the White House transcript, there should have been the word “and” separating African American and Hispanic workers and veterans from those without a high school diploma.Getty Images
A clip of the slip-up was shared on Xformerly known as Twitter, by the Republican National Committee, where it was swiftly slammed.
“Very humiliating,” one person thinks.
Another wrote: “This is very sad. It also provokes anger.”
Others denounced the commander-in-chief as “racist.”
Biden’s latest blunder comes amid growing concerns about the president’s mental acuity as he runs for a second term in office.
He has made several mistakes during his three years in office.
Last year, Biden asked during another speech, “Jackie, are you here? Where’s Jackie?” as he searched the room for Jackie Walorski, an Indiana congressman who had been killed in a car accident the previous month.
The president issued a statement of condolences to his family at the time, saying how shocked and saddened he was by his death.
He also called for regime change in Russia following its invasion of Ukraine, only for the White House to later deny what he meant when he said of Vladimir Putin: “For God’s sake, this man cannot stay in power.”
Biden’s latest blunder comes amid growing concerns about the president’s mental acuity as he runs for a second term in office.Getty Images
In July, Biden inadvertently gave a low estimate of the death toll from COVID-19 — saying “over 100” Americans have died from the disease since it emerged more than three years ago.
His statement was later corrected to “more than 1 million” in the official White House transcript.
And just this week, the president came under fire again for claiming he was at the World Trade Center site in New York City the day after the 9/11 attacks — even though his own autobiography places him in DC.
Now, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough revealed, many in his own party say he may be too old to run for a second term.
“Let me just say, Democrats off the air will say, ‘Joe Biden is too old. Why is he running?’” Scarborough told Washington Post foreign affairs columnist David Ignatius on Wednesday.
“On the air – they won’t say it.”
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