'I want to thank Sec - the former general - I keep calling him "General,"' Biden said. In a speech on March 9, Biden seemed to forget the name of his Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin. Later that day, when the White House released the transcript of his speech, Harris's proper title was inserted with brackets. 'Now when President Harris and I took a virtual tour of a vaccination center in Arizona not long ago, one of the nurses on that, on that tour injecting people, giving vaccinations, said that each shot was like administering a dose of hope,' Biden said. Just a day earlier, Biden accidentally referred to Vice President Kamala Harris as 'President Harris.' White House Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre later told reporters that Biden was '100 per cent fine', adding that it was 'pretty windy'. Video last week showed Biden tripping up the stairs as he boarded Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews.īiden grabbed the hand railing to catch his balance, but lost his footing twice more and fell to his knees. Published: 01:04 BST, 26 March 2021 | Updated: 15:56 BST, 26 March 2021īiden tripped up the Air Force One stairs last week Sean Hannity blasted the press conference as 'embarrassing' and said: 'Our enemies are watching'īy Valerie Edwards and Keith Griffith For and Associated Press.His remarks about 'Jim Eagle' in a confusing analogy to Jim Crow left many viewers puzzled.Biden also appeared to lose his train of thought several times, cutting himself off abruptly.The US ranks 13th globally in infrastructure quality, down from 5th place in 2002, his notes stated.Despite the notes, he had to correct himself after saying US ranks 85th in the world in infrastructure.The 78-year-old Democrat is seen holding one sheet that showed the headshots of journalists.Images from President Biden's first press conference showed him using cheat sheets.Political parties continue to view the country’s second-largest voting cohort through simplistic lenses, many of which are rooted in years of institutional racism.Photos show Biden, 78, relied on 14-point font prompt cards during his first press conference, including one with head shots of reporters he planned to call on: Lost his train of thought at times Still, Biden’s gaffe further exposed a much deeper point that goes beyond political partisanship and merits more attention: To Democrats and Republicans, Latinos are still a cultural sideshow. It's just an extension of how Republicans have found the right strategy to combat “wokeness,” whether it's weak comparisons to tacos or the obsession with the word “Latinx.” Spare the faux conservative anger against Biden. If 2022 Republicans think Latinos are not tacos, they had no problem thinking we were all taco bowls in 2016, when Trump tweeted his Cinco de Mayo peace offering to Latinos with an actual taco bowl. Enabling such beliefs and making them mainstream have only exposed the reality that as much as the GOP thinks it has made inroads with Latinos, it just comes across as hypocritical. No Republican outrage against such hate speech happened at the time. But are Republicans really the right ones to launch their criticism at Biden, and at Democrats more widely, when it comes to serving Latinos?Ĭompared to what then-presidential candidate Donald Trump said in 2015, Biden’s taco comments were tame, an unfortunate but innocent mistake. Partisan supporters applauded his comments back then, but it felt a bit disconnected, just like the time when candidate Hilary Clinton in 2016 was being compared to an abuela. About 10 years ago, then-Vice President Joe Biden, speaking to the National Council of La Raza (the previous name of UnidosUS) made a bizarre analogy between Mitt Romney’s tax returns and Latinos having to show their immigration papers, as if immigration status is what solely defined the community. Last year, the first lady mispronounced the iconic “Sí se puede” chant in Spanish, leading to some head shakes. Mehdi Hasan July 12, 2022Īs much as they don't want to admit it, Democrats, particularly the Bidens, have been uncomfortable practitioners in not understanding the complexity of the Latino community. Remember though, while the rest of us can criticize her mistake, pro-Trump folks who excused Trump’s long history of offensive statements & his lack of apologies have no right or standing to criticize Jill Biden. It was kind of a ridiculous thing to say.
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