WASHINGTON — President Biden unexpectedly ended a speech on gun control Friday by saying, “God save the Queen, man” — after warning his audience they could be liable for the actions of people who steal their cars.
The 80-year-old president’s signoff confounded listeners, including journalists in the room at the University of Hartford’s campus in Connecticut.
“Several of you have asked me why he might have said that,” Todd Gillman of the Dallas Morning News wrote in a pool report describing the moment.
“I have no idea. Other poolers likewise have no idea.”
Later Friday, deputy White House press secretary Olivia Dalton told reporters that Biden “was commenting to someone in the crowd,” without further clarification.
“God Save the Queen” was the name of the British national anthem under Queen Elizabeth II, as well as a customary nationalistic statement during her 70-year reign. She died in September and was succeeded by her son, Charles III, reverting the anthem and royalist motto to “God Save the King.”
The confusing remark recalled Biden’s inquiry “Where’s Jackie?” last September as he searched for the late Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.) despite publicly mourning her death and even calling her family to offer his condolences a month prior.
When reporters raised questions about Biden’s mental acuity after that gaffe, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre would not concede the president misspoke and said Biden was looking for the dead congresswoman because she was “top of mind.”
This guy is absolute Looney Tunes. I don’t know if he’s trying to be funny or creative with what he says, but he comes off as just “weird”.
Send him to the UK to be under his QUEEN !!!!
Old senile Joe is not funny or creative!
He is a POS old senile fake President.