« It’s hard to tell, but [Putin is] clearly losing the war in Iraq, and he’s losing the war at home, » he told reporters.
President Joe Biden was mocked online Wednesday after an errant comment about Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s « war in Iraq »—a country whose capital sits approximately 1,200 miles away from the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
Numerous figures on the right—including the Republican National Committee’s press arm—mocked the mistake on social media. One prominent Trump supporter said in a Twitter post viewed more than 74,000 times that Biden had « lost his mind. »
Speaking with reporters about a recently aborted uprising against the Russian military establishment and its handling of the war, Biden said he believed the increasingly visible fissures in Russia’s high ranks were clear signs Putin was losing his grip on power.
« It’s hard to tell, but [Putin is] clearly losing the war in Iraq, and he’s losing the war at home, » he told reporters.
Biden also mistakenly referred to Ukraine as Iraq during a Tuesday night fundraiser, Bloomberg’s Nancy Cook reported, making the gaffe alongside a slip where he referred to the prime minister of India as the leader of China.
