“I am a gaffe machine”, I am a machine that grinds gaffe. Joe Biden admitted years ago, with a certain selfmockery, that he had an involuntary tendency to get carried away. Letting go, often awkwardly and awkwardly, to inappropriate and inappropriate phrases. But this time he seems to have really gone further with his words about Vladimir Putin first called a butcher and then a bully with hours counted. A blip unequaled in its repercussions among the sensational precedents of the past.
And there are many, many of those because of Biden’s irrepressible passion for joking at all costs. For example, when he began his 2008 presidential campaign when he described young Senator Barack Obama as “the first articulate, smart, clean, and handsome African American in politics.”
A joke that also cost Biden some criticism of creeping racism. Citing two popular US grocery chains, he explained that “it’s now impossible to walk into a 7Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts without a slight Indian accent.” Instead, he was already vice president when he infuriated Obama with his push for gay marriage, announced his support for its legalization, and burned the president in the process. With whom the ticket to the White House wasn’t always rosy: how in 2010 a convict microphone testified that picked up a curse from Joe aimed at his friend Barack while he was signing the historic Obamacare health care bill.
Americans cannot then forget when Biden, Also during the 2008 presidential campaign, at a rally in Missouri, he addressed a local senator with great emphasis and enthusiasm, repeating several times: “Come on, Chuck! Show yourself, enjoy the welldeserved applause. Stand up!”. Too bad Chuck Graham was paraplegic. Not to mention former Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen, who heard Biden say on St. Patrick’s Day 2010, “Your mother lived on Long Island for 10 years, rest in peace…”. Confronted with general astonishment and a few laughs, he then turned to a stunned Cowen: “Ah … it’s your Father who is dead, your mother is still alive.” One of the most recent slips comes from 2019, during a fundraiser meeting: “Margaret Tatcher he said seriously is seriously worried about the United States led by Donald Trump,” exchanged then British Prime Minister Theresa May with the lady of iron died in 2013.
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