Another day, another slip-up.
President Biden on Thursday expressed his admiration for the “Congressional Black Caucus” during his address to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus in his latest head-scratching moment.
The offense arose as he delivered a speech in Washington at the 46th Annual Gala of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute.
Biden, 80, celebrated gala awardee Sister Norma Pimental, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, shortly before the mistake.
“I know Sister Norma lived the lessons the nuns taught her growing up. Lessons based on the Gospel of Matthew: feed the hungry, care for the sick, welcome the stranger,” the president said. “They echo what my father taught me, and I mean this sincerely, my father once said, ‘Everyone, everyone deserves to be treated with dignity and respect.’”
“The Congressional Black Caucus embodies all those values,” he added, without stopping to correct himself.
The president did not try and correct himself after the mistake. AFP via Getty Images
The president’s blunder occurred during a speech at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s 46th Annual Gala. Anna Moneymaker
Biden’s latest verbal blunder comes a week after he was ripped for concluding that African American and Hispanic workers don’t have “high school diplomas.”
“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 during an event at Prince George’s Community College in Maryland last week.
Biden boasted Thursday about the number of Hispanic members in his Cabinet and took credit for “record low” Latino unemployment and other economic gains in the Hispanic community under his watch.
He also accused Republicans of “destroying the immigration system” during former President Donald Trump’s time in office and continuing to “undermine our border security today, blocking bipartisan reform.”
Biden looked to both sides of the stage after concluding his speech, and he put his palms together as he appeared to ask someone off-camera for directions off the stage.
Nearly two-thirds of Hispanic voters – 60% – disapprove of Biden’s job performance as president, according to a June Pew Research poll.
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