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Biden mixes up Germany's Angela Merkel with late Helmut Kohl (www.reuters.com)

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U.S. President Joe Biden mistakenly referred to a conversation he had with Angela Merkel in 2021 as having taken place with the late German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who died in 2017, on Wednesday night, his second such mixup this week.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

If mixing up two people is some sort of litmus test for mental competence then I should be drawing disability monies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

What if he is a time traveller? Both Mitterrand and Kohl ruled in the 90s. Maybe he was supposed to travel to the 90s to save the future. But his time machine malfunctioned and arrived in the 2020s.