Biden Mistakenly Claims German Chancellor Who Died in 2017 Was at 2021 Summit in President's Latest Gaffe

Biden said at two of three events that Kohl, who died in 2017, had asked him how he would respond if he read about people storming the British Parliament and killing officers "to stop the election of a prime minister."

Merkel notably attended the 2021 summit in the U.K., but Biden name dropped Kohl, who was chancellor from 1982 until 1998.

"I sat down and said, 'America's back.' And president of France looked at me and said, 'For how long?' And I never thought of it this way," Biden shared during the second event, according to multiple outlets.

"And then Helmut Kohl of Germany looked at me and said, 'What would you say Mr. President if you picked up the London Times tomorrow morning and learned there's 1000 broken down the doors of the British parliament, killed some [inaudible] on the way in to deny the next prime minister to take office. And you think, what would we think?'"

It marked his second blunder in a week after Biden spoke at an event in North Las Vegas, Nevada, on Sunday. He appeared to confuse François Mitterrand, the former French president who died in 1996, for French President Emmanuel Macron, as he remembered an encounter at a summit during his first year in office.

Mitterand notably died in 1996, long before the G7 summit.