The White House is doing a housecleaning after President Joe Biden gave a gaffe-laden speech full of eye-rolling doozies, including calling insurgents “irrectionists.”
White House staff made nine corrections to the speech that 81-year-old Biden gave Sunday to the Detroit chapter of the NAACP while receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award.
In the official transcript of the speech, his team crossed out nine words in which Biden made factual and pronunciation errors and inserted what the president should have said.
In a chilling moment right at the start of the speech, Biden told a story about the time former President Barack Obama sent him to Detroit when he was vice president. But Biden got the timeline wrong by about a decade, declaring that he was sent there during the “pandemic.”
President Joe Biden delivers a speech at the NAACP branch in Detroit on May 19. During his remarks, Biden made nine gaffes that the White House corrected in the official transcript, including saying “irrectionists” instead of “insurgents” and claiming he was vice president during the “pandemic” instead of “recession”
In reality, Biden was sent to Detroit during the Great Recession to meet with members of the auto industry.
In the transcript of his remarks, the White House crossed out the pandemic and wrote “recession.”
Later in the speech, Biden went after his political opponent Donald Trump, who criticized the ex-president for the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and called Trump unhinged.
“He calls the irrectionists who stormed Capitol Hill ‘patriots,’” Biden declared. “He says if he’s elected, he wants, quote, ‘every one’ of them to be pardoned.”
In the transcript, the White House crossed out “irrectionists” and inserted “insurgents.”
Shortly after that moment, Biden accused Trump of saying that if he lost again in November there would be “bloodshed,” which was also crossed out and corrected to “carnage.”
Other smaller mistakes the White House fixed included when Biden said he was “humbled to host this organization.”
The correct added word was ‘distinction’.
They also deleted “inspirational” and added “inspirational,” changed $8,000 to $800, “who” to “on,” and corrected Biden calling the NAACP the “NAAC.”
Biden has long been criticized as a president prone to blunders.
In the official transcript of the speech, his team crossed out nine words in which Biden made factual and pronunciation errors and inserted what the president should have said.
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Last week, Biden named North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un the president of South Korea at a fundraiser in California as he tried to insult Trump again.
The president spoke of Trump’s pride in “love letters from South Korean President Kim Jong Un.”
As Biden makes a series of blunders as he runs for re-election, Trump has made a habit of mocking Biden for his difficulty reading a teleprompter and other missteps on the campaign trail.
But the 77-year-old Trump is not immune to making his own embarrassing blunders as he bids to return to the White House.
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Trump has repeatedly confused Biden with former President Obama during speeches and has made other verbal mistakes during his rancorous rallies.
Both the campaigns and their supporters have made a point of going after the blunders of the opposing party’s presumptive presidential candidate in a blunder battle that will likely continue well into November and into Election Day.