“I’m a gaffe machine”, I’m a machine that grinds gaffe. Joe Biden, with a certain amount of self-irony, already admitted years ago his involuntary propensity to let himself be carried away. To let go, often awkwardly and awkwardly, to inappropriate and inappropriate phrases. But this time with his words about Vladimir Putin – first called a butcher and then a tyrant with the hours counted – he really seems to have gone further. A slip that for the implications of him has no equal among the sensational precedents of the past.
And of these there are many, many due to Biden’s irrepressible passion for joking at all costs. Like when, launching his 2008 presidential campaign, he described young Senator Barack Obama as “the first eloquent, bright, clean and good-looking African American in politics.”
A joke that also cost Biden some criticism of creeping racism. Like when, citing two popular US food chains, he stated that “it is now impossible to go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin ‘Donuts without a slight Indian accent.” He was already vice president when he really infuriated Obama with his forward flight on gay marriage, announcing his support for their legalization and thus burning the president. With which the ticket to the White House was not always roses and flowers: as in 2010 he testified a convict microphone capturing a curse by Joe addressed to his friend Barack while he was signing the historic Obamacare health reform.
Americans then can’t forget when Biden, also during the 2008 presidential campaign, at a rally in Missouri he addressed a local senator with great emphasis and enthusiasm, repeating several times: “Come on, Chuck! Show yourself, enjoy the well-deserved applause. Get up!”. Too bad Chuck Graham was paraplegic. Not to mention former Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen, who heard Biden say on St Patrick’s Day 2010: “Your mother lived on Long Island for 10 years, rest in peace …”. Faced with general astonishment and a few laughs, he then turned to a stunned Cowen: “Ah … it’s your father who is dead, your mother is still alive.” One of the latest gaffes dates back to 2019, during a fundraising meeting: “Margaret Tatcher – he said gravely – is seriously worried about the United States under the leadership of Donald Trump”, exchanging the then British Prime Minister Theresa May with the Lady of iron died in 2013.
Source: Ansa
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