US President Joe Biden said Wednesday, April 10, that voters should “Elect me, I’m in the 20th century” — another gaffe that instantly went viral among critics who say he’s too old for another four-year term.
Biden aged 81, made the statement during the conclusion of a joint press conference in the White House Rose Garden alongside Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
“Why doesn’t everybody holler at once?” the president said as journalists shouted questions at him, before pausing to answer several queries from reporters who had not been pre-selected by his press officers.
Peter Alexander of NBC News asked Biden to address the issue of abortion in Arizona, where the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that an 1864 law banning abortion from the moment of conception remains in effect, with only a narrow exception to save the life of a mother.
“I’m in the 20, 20th century,” said the president,
BIDEN: “Elect me. I’m in the 20th Century.”
We are in the 21st Century.
This guy has the nuclear codes… pic.twitter.com/HxndFlYLIw
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 10, 2024
The nation’s oldest-ever president trailed off as reporters shouted additional unrelated questions.
In response to a different reporter’s question about how the war in Ukraine may end, Biden said, “The war in Ukraine comes to an end by the House leader allowing a vote [on additional military aid].”
Biden would be 86 if he completes a full second term in 2029.