President Biden appeared to stumble over the name of his secretary of defense, Lloyd Austin, as he crowed about taking heat for putting a “black man” in the crucial position.
The 81-year-old president made the remark while speaking about his record of appointing black people in his administration during a sit-down interview with Black Entertainment Television (BET) on Wednesday.
A clip of the exchange quickly exploded on social media after critics accused the gaffe-prone Biden of forgetting Austin’s name and instead just referring to him as “the black man.”
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