Biden mistakenly calls Egyptian leader ‘president of Mexico’

President Biden on Thursday confused the leaders of Mexico and Egypt during a press conference in which he forcefully rebutted a special counsel report that offered a harsh assessment of his memory and recall abilities, Report informs, citing The Hill.

Biden delivered remarks from the White House in which he sharply pushed back against conclusions from special counsel Robert Hur that the president presented during an interview with investigators as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”

“My memory’s fine. Take a look at what I’ve done since I became president… how did that happen? I guess I just forgot what was going on,” Biden said, striking a sarcastic tone.

But when he fielded a question about the humanitarian situation in Gaza, Biden mistakenly referred to Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah El-Sisi as the “president of Mexico.”

“I think, as you know, initially, the president of Mexico, El-Sisi, did not want to open up the gate to humanitarian material to get in. I talked to him. I convinced him to open the gate,” Biden said.

A clip of the comment quickly traveled around social media, where Republicans seized on it as the latest evidence that Biden had lost a step.