President Biden appeared to make up a huge new number while trying to boast about his administration’s massive infrastructure spending, a twisted mistake that the White House attempted to downplay in its official transcript.
“On my watch, instead of Infrastructure Week, America will celebrate the Decade of Infrastructure,” the president told a crowd of union members in Las Vegas on Friday, in a speech in which he touted US-funded rail projects. federal funds.
“More than one billion three hundred million trillion three hundred million dollars!” -Biden exclaimed-. “Trump just talks what he talks, we do what we do.”
The swipe was intended as a swipe at Biden’s predecessor, former President Donald Trump, who passed no such spending bills through Congress during his tenure, but drew ridicule online.
“Why does the president of the United States sound exactly like my 4-year-old son when he tries to calculate the highest possible number?” wondered Biden critic Oren Ross. in X.
Biden spoke to union members in Las Vegas in a speech touting new federal spending on rail projects. REUTERS
The president boasted of “more than one billion three hundred billion dollars” in federal spending. AP
On Saturday, nearly 18 hours later, the White House press office released a transcript that hid the error by expressing it numerically, as “more than $1,300,000,000 – $1,000,300,000,000,” suggesting that the president had simply omitted some zeros on your teleprompter, rather than dabbling in some new form of budget math.
The verbal stumble was the latest in a long series of gaffes by Biden that have contributed to widespread voter concern about the 81-year-old president’s mental acuity and fitness for office.
In the same speech, Biden shared, for at least the 13th time since taking office, a debunked story involving a late Amtrak conductor who allegedly exclaimed “Joey, baby!” while praising Biden’s career as a train passenger.
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