For the second time in a week, President Biden has apparently confused a world leader with a dead predecessor, this time mixing up Angela Merkel and Helmut Kohl, her patron and predecessor-but-one as German chancellor.
Three days after he appeared to muddle President Macron of France with his dead predecessor François Mitterrand, Biden turned his attention to Merkel and Kohl at a campaign event in New York on Wednesday, according to Politico.
Biden, 81, was recalling a conversation with G7 leaders in 2021, telling his supporters that they had discussed the January 6 storming of the Capitol a few months before, according to reports. “And then Helmut Kohl turned to me and said, ‘What would you say, Mr President, if you picked up the
