In yet another embarrassing speech incident while giving his “Remarks by President Biden at the 115th NAACP National Convention” in Las Vegas, Nevada, President Biden stumbled over his words in a face-palming way while trying to speak about Civil Rights, Delaware, and the state of the country. Predictably, he was roasted for it on X (formerly Twitter).
That came when President Biden was trying to speak about allegedly racist policies in his home state, Delaware, and how his administration is fixing them, saying, “My city of Wilmington, Delaware: I-95 runs up through what used to be the Black community, divided it. It’s six lanes wide. We’re going to make sure that if the states want it, we’re going to be able to pave over the top of that and still have the highway — connecting neighborhoods.”
Continuing, he spoke about further initiatives that are supposedly rectifying the alleged problems, saying, “We’re removing, which is costly, every poisonous lead pipe in a house in America so every child can drink clean water without fear of brain damage. We’re delivering high-speed and affordable broadband. No child should have to sit out in a parking lot with their moms in front of a McDonald’s so they can get online to do their homework.”
He then started rambling about healthcare, stumbling over his words a bit and saying, And because of you, we’re not only protecting Obamacare, you allowed me to increase it, making health care more affordable. We’re putting — and, by the way, more than it’s ever been — more than it’s ever been. Millions of African Americans have — now have health care because of what we’ve done.”
And, turning to “generational wealth” and government policies that will allegedly help build it, he said, “We’re putting homeownership — homeownership within reach. How do you generate generational wealth no matter what community you’re from? I know how we did it when we — when everything got stuck in Scranton and we had no jobs; we moved to Delaware. Dad worked like hell so he could get a down payment to buy a small house. That’s how you build equity. A small — it was a three-bedroom, split-level home, with four kids and a grandpop living with us, but it was a home. And he was able to build some equity.”
That is when he got to the very embarrassing stumbling over his words moment, He said, “Look, we’re making the most significant investment in climate ever in all of history — including the most significant action on environmental justice ever. Look, folks, think about this. My state of Delaware, if you know — you don’t — not many of you don’t know my state. My state of Delaware has the Delaware River that runs up along and —”
It was so bad that even the White House’s official transcript recorded that there was laughter from the audience members, saying, “AUDIENCE MEMBER: (Inaudible). (Laughter.)” Biden, in any case, continued, saying, “— is jagged. But at the top of the state, there’s a half-moon, and it goes up along more oil refineries on the other side of that half-moon, in Marcus Hook and areas, than anywhere in the country, including Houston. And guess what? The wind blows southeast. We had the highest cancer rate for the longest time. But you know who was affected? Fence-line communities. Do you know who the fence-line communities are? Black communities.”
The RNC Research account, which is run by the Republican National Committee, posted a clip of the ridiculous speech and, commenting on it, said, “Biden is rambling incomprehensively again.” Watch the speech here:
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