Bumbling Biden strikes again: Moment President goes on a walkabout as he introduces Jordanian King to the podium during their joint press conference

President Joe Biden walked across the stage “like a lost puppy” on Tuesday during a crucial press conference on the ongoing conflict in Israel together with Jordan’s King Abdullah at the White House.

After delivering his remarks, the 81-year-old Biden told the king: “Your Majesty, over to you.” The Scranton native moved further to the King’s left, with a laser aimed at the floor, apparently looking for a marker.

A few seconds later, Biden walks to the other side of the king, still looking for a mark. He then goes back to his first choice, for the Jordanian flag. “I switched sides to you,” he noted, smiling at the king.

This latest embarrassing moment comes after a week of blunders in which he forgot the name of the terrorist group Hamas, called 46-year-old French President Emmanuel Macron by the name of the late President François Mitterrand, who died in 1996 at the age of 79, and finally referring to former German leader Angela Merkel as late Chancellor Helmut Kohl.

Also last week, Biden pushed back against a report from special counsel Robert Hur that so seriously questioned the octogenarian president’s mental faculties that there was speculation that he could not determine when his son Beau died.

Hours after Abdullah’s blunder, liberal icon Jon Stewart undermined Biden’s response to the report, with even the editorial pages of the New York Times questioning the Democrat’s presidency.

After handing the stage to Jordan’s King Abdullah, Biden wandered behind the monarch in search of his marker

“I switched sides against you,” Biden told the king, prompting anxious laughter

Biden stared into space as King Abdullah spoke about the future of Gaza

Hur found evidence that Biden deliberately retained top secret information and shared it with a ghostwriter. The special counsel devoted much of his report to explaining why he did not believe the evidence met the standard for criminal prosecution.

One of the reasons given for this conclusion was the high likelihood that the Justice Department would not be able to prove Biden’s intentions beyond a reasonable doubt, due to old age which they said made him forgetful and the possibility of “innocent explanations” for the documents they could not refute.

“I have not shared any classified information,” Biden insisted. “I didn’t share it with my ghostwriter.” He added that he did not know how the boxes of classified documents ended up in his garage.

And in response to Hur’s portrayal of him, Biden insisted to reporters that “my memory is fine,” and said he believes he is still the most qualified person to serve as president.

“How on earth does he dare bring that up?” Asked about Hur’s comments about his son’s death, Biden said he did not believe it was Hur’s business.

The meeting with Abdullah comes as Biden and his aides work to strike a new pause in Israel’s war against Hamas to send humanitarian aid and supplies to the region and extract hostages.

The White House is facing mounting criticism from Arab Americans over the administration’s continued support for Israel, in light of the rising number of casualties in Gaza since Hamas launched its attack on Israel on October 7.

“The key elements of the deal are on the table,” Biden said next to the king, although “there are still gaps.”

He said the US would do “everything possible” to broker an agreement: a pause in fighting for at least six weeks and the release of the remaining hostages held by Hamas.

A senior US government official said on Sunday that a framework for a deal was essentially in place after weeks of shuttle diplomacy and phone calls. The official said Israeli military pressure on Hamas in Khan Younis in recent weeks has helped push the militant group closer to accepting a deal.

Abdullah said Biden’s leadership was “key to addressing this conflict,” as he raised the plight of the tens of thousands of civilians killed and injured in the fighting.

“We need a lasting ceasefire now,” the king said. ‘This war must end.’

Jordan and other Arab states have been highly critical of Israel’s actions and have shunned public support for long-term planning about what will happen next, arguing that fighting must end before such discussions can begin.

They have been demanding a ceasefire since mid-October, as the number of civilian casualties began to soar.

Biden’s stance marks a subtle but notable break for the president, who continues to oppose a permanent ceasefire. His government has insisted that Hamas not retain political or military control of Gaza after the war — a key objective of the Israeli operation to prevent a repeat of the Oct. 7 attack that killed more than 1,200 Israelis and killed about 250 people were taken hostage.