The state of health of President Joe Biden is once again in the news after a new lapse by the US president, this time, during his speech at the National Summit for Safer Communities, in Connecticut.
Biden made a vehement plea for stricter restrictions on the sale of firearms for about 30 minutes, but the most striking thing about his speech was the end, which puzzled everyone and ended up going viral on the networks.
Instead of his classic “God bless America” closing, the president and re-election candidate said “God save the queen, man,” leaving the audience stumped.
Not even the journalists present, such as Todd Gillman, White House correspondent for The Dallas Morning News, managed to grasp the meaning of President Biden’s words. Gillman, given the avalanche of questions received in this regard, published his opinion on Twitter: “Several of you have asked me why I could have said that,” Gillman wrote early this Saturday morning, “I have no idea. Other journalists have no idea either.”
“God Save The Queen” began trending on Twitter soon after. Many wondered if Biden was referring to Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-serving monarch, who died in September, and whose funeral she herself attended.
Other journalists recalled that Biden used the same expression, “God save the queen”, when Donald Trump’s victory materialized in the 2017 elections, and that he would do so in the sense of “God help us all” (God help us all ).
Later, White House senior deputy press secretary Olivia Dalton said the president was “talking to someone in the crowd” when he said that, without elaborating.
It is not the first slip of the president, among the most remembered are when he asked about a dead congresswoman or was wrong to mention the cause of death of his own son Beau. The state of health of Joe Biden, who is 80 years old, has been of particular concern since he began his campaign for re-election. If he gets it, he would leave the White House at 86, a concern that the Democrats themselves acknowledge.
