![]() ![]() 'We can get things done': Biden praises bipartisanship and Brent Spent Bridge project "The mayor of Cincinnati (is here) and ‒ I'll make sure, I gotta do this right – Aftab, Pureval?" Biden said, pronouncing the mayor's name as "Af-tahb Per-VAL." While "Mayor Aftab" seems to have caught on in Cincinnati, what Pureval feared is exactly what happened when he got a shoutout from President Joe Biden in Covington Wednesday.īiden was visiting to tout the $1.6 billion federal investment in the Brent Spence Bridge Corridor. He didn't want anyone to feel awkward and stumble over it. When asked why, Pureval said his last name was difficult to pronounce. When Aftab Pureval became mayor of Cincinnati last year, he had one request: Call him "Mayor Aftab." Joseph Curl covered the White House and politics for a decade for The Washington Times.Watch Video: VIDEO: President Joe Biden greeted by DeWines, McConnell at airport in Cincinnati.Biden’s trip will be portrayed as a ringing success and the media will sell the idea that the Democrat - like the Chosen One, Barack Obama - has raised the stature of America. Instead, he will hold a solo presser Wednesday, where he’ll once again take softball questions from a pre-selected handful of friendly members of the establishment media.īut you won’t hear about any of this in the MSM. Biden dodged a joint press conference with the Russian leader - something every president has held at summits for decades. Biden had been president for 145 days, so he even got that wrong. Biden leaned down close to the microphone, and in an odd voice said, “120 days. Biden took few questions from the press - and always from pre-selected members of the friendly mainstream media - he ended up clashing with one reporter who (gasp!) asked a tough question. when he reportedly kicked members of the British Broadcasting Corporation out of their table at a pub garden so he and first lady Jill Biden could enjoy the view. Biden got some more bad press in the U.K. Biden arrived after the Queen, another diplomatic no-no.Īnd Mr. Biden met Her Majesty at Windsor Castle, he kept on his trademark aviator sunglasses (considered very poor etiquette). There were less egregious failings, too (but which, had former President Donald Trump committed them, would have been all over the headlines). The upshot of the trip: leaders announced the formation of a joint council to address China’s predatory economic practices after putting out a lukewarm communique on the rising communist power. Biden urged leaders gathered in Belgium for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit. In the end, the G-7 leaders put out a watered-down communique with far weaker language on China than Mr. Biden urged foreign leaders to crack down on China, but a bunch of them said, “Nah.” The chancellor of Germany, which exports millions of cars to China each year, wasn’t on board, nor was the president of Japan, a close neighbor and trading partner of China. There were more substantive blunders, too.Īt the G-7, Mr. World leaders around the table laughed at Mr. Johnson had just moments before introduced him by name. ![]() Biden also tried to correct British Prime Minister Boris Johnson for not introducing “the president of South Africa” - even though Mr. Biden meant Syria, not Libya.Īt the G-7 summit in England, Mr. ![]() White House aides later told reporters Mr. We should be opening up the passage to be able to go through, provide food assistance, and economic - I mean, vital assistance to a population that’s in real trouble,” Mr. “We can work together with Russia, for example, in Libya. Biden confused two countries, one in Africa, the other in Asia - three times. “Let’s be honest, our American president is not very good on his feet,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich later said on Fox News in a grand understatement. Huh? By the end of that meandering non-answer, Mr. But it’s not much of a - I don’t think it matters a whole lot, in terms of this next meeting we’re about to have. But look, when I was asked that question on air, I answered it honestly. THE PRESIDENT: Well, look, I mean, he has made clear that - the answer is: I believe he has, in the past, essentially acknowledged that he was - there were certain things that he would do or did do. ![]()
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