Biden’s eight most notable gaffes of 2023

President Joe Biden, who once admitted to being a gaffe machine, has a long track record of blunders and exaggerations that keep politicos eager to hear what he comes up with next — or anxious, depending on one’s perspective.

This year was no exception, with Biden mixing up words and phrases during many, if not most, of his appearances.

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Here are eight of Biden’s most notable gaffes of 2023.

Queen Latifah’s ‘prime-time Enemy’

The best gaffes often involve the speaker saying something near the opposite of what they meant to say. That appeared to be the case on Dec. 3, when the president congratulated rapper and actress Queen Latifah by saying she’s earned a prime-time “Enemy.”

He quickly corrected himself to say prime-time “Emmy.”

God save which queen?

A queen came up again in a June 16 speech about gun control, though it was unclear which one or, for that matter, what Biden was getting at generally. The president finished his speech by saying, “God save the queen, man.”

It was never clarified by Biden or his staff what the president meant.

Putin is in trouble … somewhere

There are many names and places one must keep straight when acting as commander in chief, and Biden occasionally gets those names mixed up. Such was the case on June 28, when Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin was losing the war — in Iraq.

That’s a really high number

Biden often brags about infrastructure investment under his watch, especially compared to former President Donald Trump. While Biden oversaw the passage of the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act last year, he cited a number that appeared far, far higher during a speech on Dec. 10.

“Over a billion, 300 million, trillion, 300 million dollars,” the president said.

Even the national deficit hasn’t soared to those heights just yet.

And that one’s a little low

On the other hand, Biden cited a number that was far too low on July 25, and on a grim topic, saying COVID-19 had killed “over 100 people.”

While that is certainly true, the actual number is over 1.1 million people who have succumbed to the disease in the United States.

Wrong place, wrong time

Biden made a rather cringeworthy slip during an appearance in his ancestral homeland of Ireland last April.

The president was speaking about former international rugby star Rob Kearney, a distant relative, saying he’s “a hell of a rugby player, and he beat the hell out of the Black and Tans.”

Biden apparently meant to say the “All Blacks,” the nickname of New Zealand’s national rugby team. In saying the Black and Tans, however, he dropped the nickname of an infamous group of constables known for their brutality during the Irish War of Independence.

Wrong star, wrong decade

Biden went for a pop culture and current events joke during the annual Thanksgiving turkey pardon.

Instead, he appeared to confuse music sensation Britney Spears with her younger contemporary Taylor Swift. The remark began with Biden joking about how hard it is for turkeys to receive a presidential pardon.

“You could say this is even harder than getting a ticket to [Beyonce’s] Renaissance Tour or Britney’s tour,” Biden said. “She’s down in — it’s kind of warm in Brazil right now.”

Swift was on tour in Brazil at the time after selling out concerts across the globe for much of 2023. But she had to postpone a show “due to the extreme temperatures in Rio.” Biden apparently mixed her up with Spears, who was making headlines thanks to a new memoir but was not touring.

Biden could be forgiven for the confusion, for at 81, he’s five years older than the turkey pardon tradition itself.

Quite an accomplishment

All presidents like to boast about their actions, and nearly all exaggerate their positive impact on the world from time to time.

But Biden appeared to take it a step further during a July 25 speech, saying, “We ended cancer as we know it.”

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The remark brings full circle one of the president’s 2022 gaffes, during which he said, “I and so damn many other people I grew up [with] have cancer.” Thankfully, he does not have the disease, and his efforts to find a cure remain ongoing.

With the calendar turning to 2024, politicos and Twitter trolls will be keenly tuning in to Biden speeches once again, looking for the next slips of the tongue from our gaffe machine in chief. Stay tuned.