Biden completely butchering lines from Lincoln’s inaugural address – and then gets laughs when he jokes about his age after telling audience: ‘I wanna get this quote exactly right’

81-year-old President Joe Biden was heard struggling with his speech as he tried to quote Abraham Lincoln at the Governors Ball Dinner.

Before a crowd of state leaders, the president, currently in the lead-up to the November elections, began reading from a prepared document a quote from the sixteenth president on the subject of a divided nation.

“I’m standing here in front of this portrait of the man behind me,” Biden said, standing directly in front of a portrait of Abe.

“I want to make sure I get the quote exactly right,” Biden said before the trouble started.

‘He said, “We – the better angels” – he said, “We must take the advice – and adapt the better angels to our nature.” And we do the… and we would do well to remember what else he said.

‘He said, “We are not enemies, but (we are) friends.” This is in the middle of – this is in – the part of the Civil War. He said: “We are not enemies, but (we are) friends. We cannot be enemies,” Biden said before the silent crowd.

Biden likely intended to offer his audience one of the most famous quotes from Lincoln’s first inaugural address in March 1861.

‘I don’t dare close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may be under strain, it must not break our bonds of affection.

“The mystic chords of memory, which stretch from every battlefield and patriot’s grave to every living heart and hearthstone in this vast land, will still swell the choir of the Union, when touched again, as they surely will be , by the better angels of the world. our nature,” Lincoln said on March 4, 1861.

Biden also referenced Lincoln’s sentiment that he could not coherently deliver because it was originally expressed “in the middle” of the Civil War.

The war started in April 1861, just over a month after Lincoln’s first inauguration, meaning the current president may need to brush up on his history and his achievements.

One beat after the shockingly garbled reference to Lincoln, Biden made a joke about his age, but not in relation to what had just come out of his mouth.

“People – and I’ve been there. I know I don’t look it. But I’ve been around for a long time,” he said, laughing tepidly.

‘And I sincerely mean this: we have got – politics is too bitter – Democrats and Republicans. Politics has become too personal – and that’s just the way it is – it’s just not the way it used to be.”

One beat after the shockingly garbled reference to Lincoln, Biden made a joke about his age, but not in relation to what had just come out of his mouth

A large majority of American voters – 86 percent – ​​say President Joe Biden, 81, is too old for another term, a new poll shows.

Meanwhile, 62 percent of respondents in the ABC News/Ipsos Polls show that former President Donald Trump, 77, is also too old for another term in the White House.

Fifty-nine percent of respondents say both of 2024’s top competitors are too old, while 27 percent think only the current president is old enough to be left out.

When only their own party’s preferences are taken into account, 73 percent of Democrats think Biden is too old and only 35 percent of Republicans think that of Trump.

Ninety-one percent of independents say Biden is too old and 71 percent of this voting bloc say the same about the former president.

These results come after the DOJ released a report revealing its assessment that Biden has “poor memory” and “impaired facilities” and therefore would not recommend charges in the classified documents case so he would not face a jury in the same way appear as he did. for Special Counsel Robert Hur.