The Kremlin mocked US President Joe Biden on Thursday after his latest blunder raised fresh questions about the White House leader’s ability to withstand the rigors of a new mandate, Reuters reported.
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,” the 80-year-old Democratic president replied on Wednesday.
JUST IN: President Biden says Putin is ‘obviously losing the Iraq war’. pic.twitter.com/MyOOR7z1ND
— Remarks (@Remarks) June 28, 2023
To today’s question about the mistake of the American leader, Dmytro Peskov answered during the daily press conference that:
“We are interested in this, we are following the situation very closely and we hope that Mr. Biden meant Ukraine in his comment yesterday.”
The Kremlin spokesman added that he could not comment on the state of health of the 80-year-old US president.
New concerns about Biden’s age before the new term
The Iraq war was Joe Biden’s second mistake 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.
“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.
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