Biden has made 148 mistakes in public remarks so far this year: report

President Biden has committed 148 gaffes and verbal stumbles in public comments so far this year, which White House staff have scrambled to fix in official transcripts. Last week, Biden read a cue from his teleprompter out loud during a speech at the North America's Building Trades Unions National Legislative Conference, botching a scripted call for his re-election. Biden has also given the wrong names or titles for people, places or groups at least 20 times during his remarks - misidentifying the leaders of France, Egypt and Mexico. "We must be honest: The threat to democracy must be defended," Biden declared. Biden called her "Lincoln" - but the speech's transcript still shows it as "Lanken" and corrects it to "Laken." The mixups amended by Biden's staff don't include dubious suggestions about his personal history or career in public service - including his recent suggestion that cannibals ate his uncle during World War II. "He got shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals in New Guinea at the time," Biden told reporters on April 17 of his mother's brother, Army Air Corps aviator Ambrose Finnegan. Later the same day, Biden screwed up another attack on congressional Republicans accusing him of striking a permissive stance toward China.