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US President Joe Biden, 81, has once again made headlines for the gaffe he made during an interview with Black Entertainment Television (BET) on Wednesday, where he discussed his administration’s record of appointing black individuals to key positions.
However, a clip from the exchange quickly went viral on social media, with critics accusing the president of forgetting the name of his secretary of defence, Lloyd Austin, and instead referring to him as “the black man.”
In the clip, Biden said, “It’s all about treating people with dignity.For example, look at the heat I’m getting because I named a, uh, the secretary of defence, [unintelligible] black man.” He then continued, “I named Ketanji Brown, I mean, because of the people I’ve named,” referring to Supreme Court associate justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
The ambiguity in Biden’s statement led to varying interpretations, with some users on social media platforms like X, criticising the president’s remark.
One user questioned how Biden’s supporters would defend the statement, while another argued that a president who cannot remember his secretary of defence’s name and instead refers to him as “the black man” is not mentally fit to handle the responsibility of 5,000 nuclear weapons.
“Let’s see how the Biden dead-enders spin this one,” one user said.
The Republican National Committee’s research team also shared the clip with a squeamish-faced emoji.
However, a clip from the exchange quickly went viral on social media, with critics accusing the president of forgetting the name of his secretary of defence, Lloyd Austin, and instead referring to him as “the black man.”
In the clip, Biden said, “It’s all about treating people with dignity.For example, look at the heat I’m getting because I named a, uh, the secretary of defence, [unintelligible] black man.” He then continued, “I named Ketanji Brown, I mean, because of the people I’ve named,” referring to Supreme Court associate justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
The ambiguity in Biden’s statement led to varying interpretations, with some users on social media platforms like X, criticising the president’s remark.
One user questioned how Biden’s supporters would defend the statement, while another argued that a president who cannot remember his secretary of defence’s name and instead refers to him as “the black man” is not mentally fit to handle the responsibility of 5,000 nuclear weapons.
“Let’s see how the Biden dead-enders spin this one,” one user said.
The Republican National Committee’s research team also shared the clip with a squeamish-faced emoji.
However, others argued that the viral clip was being misinterpreted, suggesting that Biden might have said “the secretary of defence, a black man” rather than “the black man,” and that the context of his statement was to list his black appointees.
