During his opening remarks at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit Joe Biden mistakenly referred to the prime minister of “Colombia” when he should have said “Cambodia.”
President Joe Biden made another embarrassing error on Saturday at a meeting with Asian allies in Cambodia.
“I was honored to host at the White House in May. Now that we are back together here in Cambodia, I look forward to building even stronger progress than we’ve already made,” Biden said. “I’m heading down to — first of all, going to Cairo for the – for the environmental effort, then heading over to Colombia and then — I mean, Cambodia,” he said.
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