US President Joe Biden accidentally mentioned Wednesday night in a conversation he had with her Angela Merkel in 2021as a conversation with the late German chancellor Helmut Kohlwho passed away in 2017, making the third mess this week.

At a reception in New York to raise money for his re-election bid, the 81-year-old Biden changed a story that was a key part of his speech to include Kohl instead of then-incumbent Angela Merkel. of the conversation he referred to, at the G7 summit in 2021.

The reference was made when Biden was talking about January 6, 2021, when supporters of then-President Donald Trump, who is running for the Republican presidential nomination this year, stormed the Capitol.

“When I was first elected president, I went to a G7 meeting with the seven leaders of the countries of Europe and the United Kingdom. I sat down and said, ‘so America is back’ and the president of France looked at me and said, ‘for how long’. I never thought of it that way,” Biden said.

“Then Helmut Kohl of Germany looked at me and said, ‘What would you say, Mr. President, if you picked up the London Times tomorrow morning and learned that 1,000 people had broken down the doors, the doors of the British Parliament, and were killing some as they came in?’ , Biden said.

The White House did not immediately comment on the mix-up.

Earlier this week, Biden while talking about negotiations in the Middle East forgot the name of “Hamas” as a result of which a reporter rushed to remind him after several seconds.

Meanwhile, in another speech during the week and while talking about the G7 summit in 2021, he confused French President Emmanuel Macron with the late Francois Mitterrand, who was in power from 1981 to 1995 and died in 1996.

Trump, 77, has also made political persona mistakes, recently confusing his Republican opponent Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat who was speaker of the House of Representatives when he was in office.