(Abdul–Rahman Oladimeji Bello, Headline USA) President Joe Biden stumbled and bumbled his way abroad this week, confusing school children, scaring dogs and rousing Irish leaders during a banquet at Dublin Castle that it was time to “lick the world.”
“There’s nothing, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart – there’s nothing our nations can’t achieve if we do it together. I really mean it,” Biden said. “So, thank you all. God bless you all. And let’s go – let’s go la- – lick the world. Let’s get it done. Thank you.”
While Fox News and other outlets noted that Cambridge online dictionary provided a definition of “licking” as “to defeat easily in a competition, fight, etc,” nobody was buying the spin and online backlash was appropriately fierce.
Making matters worse, Biden’s gaffe at the banquet came nipping at the heels, so to speak, of Ireland President Michael Higgins’s dog, Misneaxh, barking at Biden in an incident that was roundly roasted.
Can anyone even explain why Biden is in Ireland? Literally there is not even any point to this trip. They just sent him out of country to distract him with shamrocks while they run the US into the ground
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) April 14, 2023
Biden doubled-down with gaffes during a speech, delivering what the New York Post called “incoherent babble” when Biden mixed up the name of the British forces that persecuted Irish people with the name of a New Zealand rugby team.
“This was given to me by one of these guys, right here,” Biden said, referring to his tie. “He was a hell of a rugby player. He beat the hell out of the Black and Tans.”
Darren Grimes tweeted, “In yet another incoherent babble at an Irish pub Joe Biden speaks of his delight at Ireland beating the “hell out of the Black and Tans”.He meant the All Blacks of New Zealand. The Black and Tans were a British unit during the 1919-21 Irish independence war. Utter embarrassment.”
In yet another incoherent babble at an Irish pub Joe Biden speaks of his delight at Ireland beating the “hell out of the Black and Tans”.
He meant the All Blacks of New Zealand.
The Black and Tans were a British unit during the 1919-21 Irish independence war.
Utter embarrassment. pic.twitter.com/MBzCBOMVsG— Darren Grimes (@darrengrimes_) April 13, 2023
Townhall also posted more receipts of the president’s questionable lapses of lucidity, including a fumbled session with Irish children looking for guidance.
This transcript of Joe and Hunter Biden taking questions from Irish children is…incredible. pic.twitter.com/N8eV7mLu7e
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) April 13, 2023
Leaving no offense unturned, Biden managed to alienate nearly every demographic, babbling that he “understood how to speak to a crowd of 10,000 Hispanic Americans because there were signs at the venue that said ‘No Irish Allowed.'”
Joe Biden: I understood how to speak to a crowd of 10,000 Hispanic Americans because there were signs at the venue that said "No Irish Allowed." pic.twitter.com/evr6bOwART
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) April 13, 2023
