US President Joe Biden became the protagonist of a new mistake on Wednesday, saying that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin is “losing the war in Iraq”, although he was referring to the conflict in Ukraine, Reuters reports.

Speaking to reporters shortly before leaving the White House for a visit to the city of Chicago, Biden was asked if Putin had been weakened by the military uprising led by Wagner mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin on Saturday.

“It’s really hard to say. But he will clearly lose the war in Iraq,” replied the 80-year-old Democratic president.

“He is losing the war at home and has become somewhat of an outcast around the world. And not only in NATO, not only in the European Union. It is also available in Japan and 40 other countries,” he added.

It was Biden’s second miss in just 24 hours.

On Tuesday night, he corrected himself at a fundraising event by referring to China when he actually meant India, whose prime minister visited the White House just last week.

Joe Biden is also wrong about his “best friend.”

“You must have seen my new best friend, the Prime Minister of a small country that has now become the largest in the world, China. I mean, sorry, India,” he said, referring to the Indian subcontinent country that has surpassed China in population for the first time.

“India is not looking for a permanent alliance but is looking for some protection from [pauză] in the region,” he added immediately afterwards.

Although Biden made similar mistakes when he was younger, opinion polls show that an overwhelming percentage of Americans are concerned about his age, as the incumbent US president, the oldest ever elected, officially announced that he will run for another term in 2024.

A Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted April 21-24 found that 73 percent of Americans think Biden is too old to serve in government. The Biden campaign team is concerned that 63% of respondents who identified themselves as Democrats also expressed the same view.