{"id":38617,"date":"2024-07-12T13:33:05","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T13:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=38617"},"modified":"2024-07-12T13:33:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T13:33:05","slug":"biden-makes-another-gaffe-calls-ukraines-zelensky-president-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/07\/12\/biden-makes-another-gaffe-calls-ukraines-zelensky-president-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Makes Another Gaffe, Calls Ukraine\u2019s Zelensky &#8216;President Putin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden of the United States made a notable gaffe on Thursday by mistakenly referring to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as &#8220;President Putin.&#8221; The slip occurred during the NATO summit in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Introducing Zelensky, Biden inadvertently called him &#8220;President Putin,&#8221; confusing him with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who initiated the ongoing conflict against Ukraine in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Biden quickly corrected himself, while Zelensky responded with humor, saying, &#8220;I\u2019m better than Putin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are a hell of a lot better,\u201d Biden replied, attributing his mistake to being &#8220;so focused on beating Putin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This incident follows growing calls for Biden to reconsider his participation in the upcoming US presidential race, citing concerns over his mental sharpness and his ability to compete against former President Donald Trump. Biden had previously referred to Trump as &#8220;Vice President&#8221; while mentioning Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden of the United States made a notable gaffe on Thursday by mistakenly referring to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as &#8220;President Putin.&#8221; The slip occurred during the NATO summit in Washington, DC. &nbsp; Introducing Zelensky, Biden inadvertently called him &#8220;President Putin,&#8221; confusing him with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who initiated the ongoing conflict [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":38619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38620,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38617\/revisions\/38620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}