US president says ‘Ladies and gentleman, President Putin’, before realising mistake and correcting himself

Did he do it for the memes?

    • DarkCloud@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      He immediately caught and corrected himself on the Putin gaffe, saying his enemies have been on his mind lately… Didn’t do so with the Trump gaffe.

        • DarkCloud@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Apparently he’s always struggled with speech issues, and grew up being mocked for his stuttering, which he learned to cover with his own techniques/efforts.

          Here’s a video of him discussing this in a TV interview from 15 years ago.

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUFA6JUaAPY

          So it doesn’t appear to be anything new for him.

          • Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Let’s stop equating this stuff to stuttering. It’s not stuttering. I wish it were stuttering.

            Head in the sand mentality is just going to get us a dictatorship in the presidency. I don’t know what it takes for us to realize that we have to do something about this problem. It isn’t going to be enough to just say

            “Well, maybe he’ll get elected anyway.”

            • DarkCloud@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              Biden’s reputation for gaffes is something you clearly weren’t aware of:

              The remark revived Biden’s reputation for gaffes.[227][221][228]

              Those sources are from 2009.

              Journalist and TV anchor Wolf Blitzer has called Biden loquacious;[692] journalist Mark Bowden has said that he is famous for “talking too much”, leaning in close “like an old pal with something urgent to tell you”.[298] He often deviates from prepared remarks[693] and sometimes “puts his foot in his mouth”.[169][694][695] Biden has a reputation for being prone to gaffes[696] and in 2018 called himself “a gaffe machine”.[697][698] The New York Times wrote that Biden’s “weak filters make him capable of blurting out pretty much anything.”[169]

              Now you do.

              • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                No we are aware. We’re not kids. This is not the same man we voted for in 2008, 2012, and 2020.

              • Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                Fantastic quality for a man in his 80s running for President.

                And it’s worse. This is not normal. We won’t win pretending it’s normal.

      • hark@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Didn’t it take like a good five seconds before he corrected himself? I wouldn’t say that was “immediately”.

        • DarkCloud@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          All the same, according to his Wikipedia page, he’s been known for such gaffes his whole career, the first mention of such is from 2009, as VP for Obama. So it’s not a new phenomenon for him.