On 5/20/2022, Joe Biden arrived to a Samsung microchip facility in South Korea to kick off his 5-day tour in Asia. Biden bungled South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol’s name and referred to him as the previous leader in a gaffe-filled speech. “Thank you all very much. And President Moon – Yoon – thank you everything you’ve done so far,’ Biden said referring to him as the previous leader Moon Jae-in. Biden quickly corrected himself after addressing Yoon as “Moon,” an apparent reference to former Korean President Moon Jae-in, whose five-year term ended earlier this month. Yoon, standing next to Biden, did not visibly react to the gaffe, which seemed to be an ad-libbed conclusion to a speech that Biden read from a teleprompter.
In an ironic twist, the slip-up came almost exactly one year after Biden mistakenly referred to Moon as South Korea’s “prime minister” rather than “president” during a White House Medal of Honor ceremony honoring Korean War veteran Ralph Puckett Jr. “The people of the Republic of Korea haven’t forgotten, as evidenced by the fact that the Prime Minister of Korea is here for this ceremony,” Biden said on 5/21/2021 last year, referring to Moon.
Biden struggled on multiple occasions with names this week. Biden struggled Tuesday to say “AANHPI” during remarks on Asian-American history month. The acronym recently replaced “AAPI” as the most politically correct way of referring to people of Asian and Pacific Islander descent by also incorporating the letters “NH” for Native Hawaiians. The official White House transcript quoted Biden as saying, “AAN- — NH — PI — aye, aye, aye, aye, aye.” Biden goes to war with his tongue and loses – stumbles through presser with Nordic leaders in latest embarrassment.
On 5/19/2022, The House’s Democratic majority overcame some internal opposition to pass a price gouging legislation. The bill was approved along party lines in a vote of 217-207. House GOP Whip Steve Scalise said on the House floor, “If anybody is going to be sued for gouging, it should be the Gouger-in-Chief Joe Biden who has created this problem,” “Stop relying on foreign countries for our energy when we can make it here cleaner, better than anyone in the world and lower gas prices and address this problem. This bill doesn’t do it. We got to bring up the bills that actually fix the problem.” Scalise, the No. 2 House Republican, called the bill an attempt by Democrats “to distract and shift blame from the administration’s self-inflicted energy and inflation crisis.”
Scalise called the bill “a socialist price-fixing scheme that hurts small businesses and consumers the most.” He accused Democrats of ”politicizing” the FTC by giving the commission “wide-ranging powers based on undefined parameters that will allow it to usurp market forces and set government-controlled gasoline prices.”
5/20/2022, Rep. Markwayne Mullin on the price gouging bill and baby formula crisis. The Infant Formula Supplemental Appropriations Act throws $28 million at the FDA with NO plan on how to spend it. Our families deserve real solutions, not messaging bills. I’m glad to support my House Republican colleagues’ bills that will actually address this dangerous shortage.
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Biden Gaffe-Filled Speech. House approves ‘price gouging’ bill. Gas prices and baby formula shortages.