When Will This Ireland Trip End for Joe Biden? – Watch
How much longer can this story get? You’ve read the articles about Biden’s gaffes in Ireland already…the confusion about where his office is, the child’s question about success that Hunter had to interpret, the snippy remark at the deli, the creepy whisper (against!), the very strange remark about little granddaughters, and the removal of “faith” from the Pope’s quote.
Enough already…but wait.
During his remarks in Dundalk, Ireland, he managed to insult the British because of his confusion about a rugby team.
Biden said that a famous Irish rugby player, Rob Kearny, had given him the shamrock tie he was wearing.
“This was given to me by one of these guys, right here, who was a hell of a rugby player,’ Biden said. “He beat the hell out of the Black and Tans,” Biden celebrated.
But the rugby team they beat was the “All Blacks,” not the “Black and Tans.” The Black and Tans were a part of the British military that brutally oppressed the Irish.
This. Was. A. Problem.
It’s no wonder that Former Democratic Unionist party leader Arlene Foster said on the eve of his arrival that the U.S. president hated the U.K. This forced Amanda Sloan, Biden’s senior aide, to insist on Wednesday that he was “not anti-British.”
Biden also managed to mispronounce Kearney’s name again, just like he did when Kearny had been at the White House for St. Patrick’s Day.
Biden met with the Irish President Michael Higgins at Áras an Uachtaráin which is the home of the Irish president in Phoenix Park, Dublin.
Joe didn’t seem to know exactly where to stand so the Irish president had to help position him. While they were together, Biden joked that he wasn’t ’t going home, he was staying there.
I’m sure that sent some shivers down Irish spines. But he said the same thing when he was in Canada.
Things got crazy when Biden was asked again about the security leak.
A reporter asked: ”Do you have an update on the leak investigation?”
BIDEN: *silence* “I’m gonna go plant a tree.”
The president’s handlers desperately began trying to get the press away.
Then the president said, “I’m not concerned about the leak because — I’m concerned that it happened, but there’s nothing contemporaneous that I’m aware of that is of great consequence.”
Nothing…except the exact number of NATO forces in Ukraine!
And then there’s the dog…you’ll just have to watch.
In Ireland, Biden told a story about a rugby player who "beat the hell out of the Black and Tans."
Except he meant New Zealand's "All Blacks" rugby team. "Black and Tans" were a unit of the British military that fought the Irish Republican Army. pic.twitter.com/1KYQaUPhNy
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Hunter Biden has arrived at Áras an Uachtaráin in Ireland ahead of Joe Biden's meeting with the Irish president pic.twitter.com/5mQUBkK0mL
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Why does Biden never know where he's going? pic.twitter.com/uLd069k7ku
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BIDEN in Ireland: "I'm not going home. I'm staying here." pic.twitter.com/sC58jXkP1x
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Q: "Do you have an update on the leak investigation?"
BIDEN: *silence* "I'm gonna go plant a tree" pic.twitter.com/CjSCkPf7Id
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BIDEN on the leak of classified military documents:
"I'm not concerned about the leak because — I'm concerned that it happened, but there's nothing contemporaneous that I'm aware of that is of great consequence." pic.twitter.com/06PPpAexYd
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This dog wants nothing to do with Joe Biden pic.twitter.com/gKpTG9qnL0
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