In yet another worrying gaffe from President Joe Biden, the 80-year-old White House resident appeared to forget how many granddaughters he actually has.
Worse yet? The octogenarian never even once realized the error.
Bidenās lapse came as he spoke before an audience Friday, while hosting the national champion Louisiana State University womenās basketball team at the White House.
āThe way in which womenās sports has come along is just incredible. And youāre changing, uh, itās not just in sports, itās across the board in every single thing,ā Biden said as he addressed the team.
āItās really neat to see,ā Biden continued, āsince Iāve got four granddaughters.ā
Thatās a kind enough (if empty) sentiment, save for one big issue ā Biden, in fact, has fivegranddaughters, and a grandson.
Seemingly not realizing heās just left out 20 percent of his granddaughters (while giving a speech about how far womenās institutions have progressed, no less), Biden continued with the pandering platitudes as if nothing were amiss.
āWe had some pretty good athletes,ā Biden said. āI wasnāt a bad athlete and my brothers werenāt, but all the real athletes in this family are women.ā
Watch Bidenās apparent memory lapse below:
This isnāt the first time Bidenās forgotten a grandchild. He made a similar gaffe years ago, failing to correctly count the number of grandchildren he had in a published August 2020 interview.
Unfortunately, it looks like the granddaughter Biden keeps conveniently forgetting is the child of his son Hunter Biden and Lunden Roberts, a former stripper.
The younger Biden currently has a trial set for July in Robertsā home state of Arkansas.
Although the young girl has been confirmed to be Hunterās through a paternity test, the ongoing court dispute centers around child support payments which the presidentās son argues are too steep for his humble means.
Hunter Bidenās abandoned laptop, a device that contains troves of documents detailing shady business transactions and other dealings related to the familyās vast financials, is set to become a key piece of evidence in the upcoming trial.
As for the president himself, the apparent memory lapse just adds to a long list of problems hinting at a potentially worrying deterioration of his mental condition.
Bidenās repeated gaffes from 2022 appear set to grow even worse this year and the next as the president prepares to fight for reelection.
After all, if his mental faculties areĀ deteriorating, thatās not something that will suddenly get better as he gets older.
Regardless, it appears as if Biden is plowing ahead with his 2024 re-election bid.
Perhaps for his next big function, the presidentās handlers can add the correct number of grandchildren he has on one of those ācheat sheetsā to save him whatever embarrassment they can.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
