“Glips of speech are something that happen, if you keep watching everybody you’ll find plenty,” Mr. Scholz commented, when asked about Mr. Biden’s gaffe by reporters during a news conference after the session. “But this does not change one thing from what the US president stated very clearly in his speech,” he added.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Thursday defended US President Joe Biden, who mistakenly called his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky “President Putin”, before returning to the microphone and correcting himself at the NATO summit in Washington.
“Glips of speech are something that happen, if you keep watching everybody you’ll find plenty,” Mr. Scholz commented, when asked about Mr. Biden’s gaffe by reporters during a news conference after the session. “But this does not change one thing from what the US president stated very clearly in his speech,” he added.
“We all make slips”, verbal mistakes, Mr. Macron also assured the journalists during a press conference after the end of the session.
The French president emphasized that Joe Biden appeared to have absolute “control”, to be “accurate” on the files discussed, which he “knows well”.
Commenting on Mr Biden’s earlier blunder of calling his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky “President Putin”, he said, “It’s happened to me, and it could happen to me again tomorrow. I would ask for your leniency.”
Source :Skai
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