VIDEO. Giorgia Meloni 'forced' to put Joe Biden in the right direction during G7 air show in Puglia

Joe Biden dans les Pouilles, lors d’un spectacle aérien. Capture d'écran Youtube The National Desk

Dans une vidéo diffusée sur les réseaux sociaux et visionnée des millions de fois, Joe Biden semble avoir un moment d’absence lors du G7, alors qu’il se trouve ce vendredi 14 juin dans les Pouilles pour assister à un spectacle aérien.

He looks haggard, lost, taking small steps away from the other heads of state or government. Until Giorgia Meloni, the Italian Prime Minister, grabbed him by the arm and put him back in the right direction. In a video posted on social networks and viewed millions of times, Joe Biden seems to have a moment of absence during the G7, while he is this Friday, June 14 in Puglia to attend at an air show.

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The President of the United States, 81 years old, “listens with his mouth open, puts on his aviator sunglasses in slow motion, then stands there, stiff as a post, arms dangling and emotionless, while the other heads of government next to him try to look interested or friendly”, underlines Blick. Our colleagues believe that this type of situation “is commonplace” with “the oldest American president of all time”.

TF1 Info delays and explains that the sequence published on social networks is “truncated&rdquo ; and massively relayed for political reasons by pro-Republican accounts. Our colleagues add that the video in its entirety, available on YouTube, is much less harsh on Joe Biden.

Remains that the American president is accustomed to blunders. He calls himself the “gaffe machine” : in speeches, he confused Ukraine and Iran ; during a meeting, he asked Chuck Graham to stand up while the senator was in a wheelchair; in 2022, he spoke to a deceased Republican parliamentarian etc.