“My memory is fine”. This is how the president of the United States has defended himself, Joe Bidengiven the allusions to his bad memory in the report of special prosecutor Robert Hurwhich this Thursday concluded that the president withheld and revealed confidential documents after his time as vice president, but decided not to press charges.

The report, however, noted that Biden showed a “significantly limited memory” during interrogations and describes him as “an older man with good intentions and a bad memory”. Some allusions to which the Democratic president himself, who is seeking re-election at 81 years old, has responded with some annoyance at a press conference. “I have good intentions and I am an older man and I know what the hell I’m doing“, he stated.

Biden has been especially bothered by one of the allusions of the special counsel, who stated in his report that the president had difficulties even in remember when his son Beau dieddied of cancer in 2015. “How the hell dare he?“Frankly, when I was asked that question I said to myself: it’s none of his damn business,” he added. “I don’t need anyone to remind me when he died,” he concluded.

Biden has been especially angry with a ‘Fox’ journalist, when asked about his memory, he ironically snapped: “My memory is so bad that I let you talk“.”My memory is fine, take a look at what I have done since I have been president,” he insisted. Shortly after, however, the Democratic president has confused the president of MexicoAndrés Manuel López Obrador, with that of EgyptAbdel Fattah al Sisi.

Biden’s new lapse

It is not his first lapse, since this week Biden wanted to refer to the former German chancellor Angela Merkel and confused her with the deceased Helmut Kohl. A confusion that added to another from last Sunday, when he alluded to a meeting with François Mitterrand -died in 1996-, when he wanted to refer to the current French president, Emmanuel Macron.

Precisely, Biden’s age has been a recurring topic of debate in the United States ahead of the presidential elections next November, since if he obtained a second term he would theoretically be in the White House until he was 86. His main rival, Donald Trump, has mocked this seniority, despite the fact that He is 77 years old.

Trump himself has also starred in recent months name dances, like when he confused the Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, with the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in November. More recently, in January, she said that her rival in the Republican primary, Nikki Haley, was in charge of security in Congress during the assault on the Capitol, when she actually meant to refer to Democrat Nancy Pelosi, former president of The House of Representatives.