“I’m a great speaker,” says Donald Trump. The former president, who wants to return to the Oval Office, is defending himself and says recent public mistakes were intentional, Reuters reports.

In the race for the White House, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are in a showdown that focuses on age and memory loss.

At the end of a potential second term, Joe Biden will be 86 and Donald Trump 78. As Americans look to their future leadership, debates about age, health and competence are likely to remain central to political discourse.

Donald Trump claims that his mistakes are intentional

Verbal slips and moments of confusion by both potential candidates are worrying voters. The mix-up of Biden and Trump’s names has been a central topic of the presidential race lately, but Trump says his mistakes are intentional.

“When I changed the name on purpose, they said I was confusing Pelosi with Nikki,” Trump said at a rally in South Carolina on Wednesday. He also said that when he referred to Obama as the current president, he did not mix anything up. ., but was just being sarcastic.

During a speech last month, he confused Nikki Haley, his latest rival in the race for the Republican nomination, with Nancy Pelosi, the former Democratic speaker of the House.

This is not the first time. He also recently confused Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. that’s not all In September, for example, Trump confused Biden with former President Barack Obama, saying that “under Obama, we won some elections that everybody said they couldn’t win.”

Many of Trump’s (77-year-old) recent gaffes come in the context of his criticism of current President Joe Biden (81) for stuttering or memory loss. About Biden, Trump has repeatedly said that he is confused and mentally unfit for office.

Joe Biden’s blunders show polls

Despite this, polls show that the main candidate that worries voters is Biden. Questions about age and mental capacity also affected his position in the polls.

Biden and his associates, in turn, criticized the former president’s mistakes and emphasized that there is only a three-year difference between Biden and Trump.

President Joe Biden has recently been the subject of an investigation into allegations that he took classified documents from the White House on the US war in Afghanistan and other national security matters when he left the post of vice president of the United States. . America in 2017.

Special counsel Robert Goure said in the report that he decided not to indict Mr. Biden because, in a potential trial, “Mr. Biden will likely appear before a grand jury, as he did during our conversation with him as a good old man.” a man with good intentions. with a weak memory.”

Joe Biden reacted visibly angry and declared in a televised speech that he has no memory problems. Kamala Harris also condemned the “political motives” of the magistrate who commented on Biden’s memoirs.

The President of the United States got his name mixed up three times in one week

Last week, Joe Biden confused the presidents of Mexico and Egypt at the same press conference in which he sharply rejected Goure’s report that he was an elderly man “with a bad memory.”

Last week, the American president made two more big confusions.

He mistakenly referred to a conversation he had in 2021 with Angela Merkel as a conversation with the late German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who died in 2017.

Also on February 6, at an electronic rally in Las Vegas, he confused President Emmanuel Macron with former French leader Francois Mitterrand, who has been dead since 1996.