President Joe Biden has declared himself the first Black woman to serve alongside a Black president
Biden also described himself as the “first president that got elected statewide in the state of Delaware, when I was a kid.”
These startling claims were made during a Pennsylvania radio show with host Andrea Lawful-Sanders, as Biden tried to connect with listeners.
He said, “By the way, I’m proud to be the, as I said, the first vice president, first black woman, served with a black president, proud of the first black woman in the Supreme Court.”
Biden appeared to be talking about his appointment of Kamala Harris as the United States’ first black female vice president.
Biden himself was previously vice president, which is likely what he was referring to when he said “to serve with a black president”.
The reference to the Supreme Court is Ketanji Brown-Jackson, the first black female justice, who was appointed by Biden in 2022.
The gaffe comes as President Biden told a gathering of nearly two dozen Democratic governors at the White House on Wednesday night that he needs to get more sleep and work fewer hours and even avoid events held after 8pm with reports that he can only handle the rigours of the job between 10am and 4pm as reported by The New York Times.
During the same gathering, the outlet reported, Biden responded to a question from Hawaii Governor Josh Green about his health by saying while his health was fine, the problem was “just my brain”, an apparent attempt at humour that went unrecognised by at least one state leader in the room.
