The American president was giving a speech in favor of the right to abortion when he made a mistake.
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This is not going to fix Joe Biden’s reputation as a blunderer. While giving a speech in favor of the right to abortion on Friday, July 8, the American president was obviously a little too captivated by the teleprompter on which his text scrolled.
During his speech, Joe Biden quoted a passage from the Supreme Court’s decision, which on June 24 shattered the case law which, since 1973, had protected the right to abortion throughout the United States. Then said aloud the instruction “repeat sentence” (“repeat the line”), before actually repeating the quote he had just spoken.
Joe Biden accidentally reads the part on the teleprompter that says “repeat the line” when they wanted him to say the line again lmfao pic.twitter.com/pS3GdXPe5N
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) July 8, 2022
The sequence caused many jokes on social networks. To calm the controversy, the American presidency teams ensured that Joe Biden actually said the phrase “let me repeat the line” (“allow me to insist”Where “I repeat”). The words “let me” are inaudible in the video, but have been added to the transcript of the speech in question, published by the White House.