Fun:List of Joe Biden gaffes

If the gaffe does destroy Biden's chances, few in either party will be particularly surprised. The senator's biggest enemy has always been his own mouth ... He simply cannot control what comes out of his mouth. Joe Biden, the current president of the United States and former vice president under Barack Obama has a serious case of foot-in-mouth disease long history of making some incredibly silly and downright questionable gaffes. A self proclaimed gaffe machine, Biden has done a decent job at playing off some of the funny ones, while staying quiet or apologizing for the not so funny ones. Biden has long been known to suffer from speech disfluency, commonly known as stuttering. This disability has been tied to Biden's so-called penchant for gaffes. Listed here are some of the gaffes that can be found and reliably sourced, all listed in order by date of occurrence. It should be noted that Biden has a lively sense of humor, so although many of his critics have always been ready to refer to one of his occasionally odd statements as a "gaffe," such criticism can speak more to the intentions of his critics than to Biden's cognitive ability. In fact, the funny things a politician says are usually called gaffes by critics, when they are only funny things for a politician to say.

1970s

 * When it comes to issues like abortion, amnesty, and acid, I’m about as liberal as your grandmother. I don’t like the Supreme Court decision on abortion. I think it went too far. I don’t think that a woman has the sole right to say what should happen to her body,
 * I think the Democratic Party could stand a liberal George Wallace — someone who's not afraid to stand up and offend people, someone who wouldn't pander, but would say what the American people know in their gut is right,
 * Everything that came out of his mouth regarding busing.

1980s

 * I started thinking as I was coming over here, why is it that Joe Biden is the first in his family ever to go to a university? [Pointing to his wife in the audience:] Why is it that my wife who is sitting out there in the audience is the first in her family to ever go to college? Is it because our fathers and mothers were not bright? Is it because I'm the first Biden in a thousand generations to get a college and a graduate degree that I was smarter than the rest?
 * Much ado about nothing
 * I think I probably have a much higher IQ than you do, I suspect, [...] I went to law school on a full academic scholarship. The only one in my in my class that had a full academic scholarship. In the first year in law school I decided didn't want to be in law school and ended up in the bottom two-thirds of my class and then decided I wanted to stay, went back to law school and in fact ended up in the top half of my class. I won the international Moot Court Competition. I was the outstanding student in the political science department at the end of my year. I graduated with three degrees from undergraduate school.

2000s
The golden age of Biden and his gaffes begins here.


 * I've had a great relationship. In Delaware, the largest growth of population is Indian Americans, moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking.
 * I mean, you got the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice looking guy, ... I mean, that's a storybook man.
 * This is bullshit
 * I'm told Chuck Graham, state senator, is here. Stand up Chuck, let 'em see you. Oh, God love you. What am I talking about. I'll tell you what, you're making everybody else stand up, though, pal.
 * Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be Vice President of the United States of America. Let's get that straight. She's a truly close personal friend. She is qualified to be President of the United States of America. She's easily qualified to be Vice President of the United States of America. Quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me. But she's first rate.
 * Remember, I said it standing here, if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're going to have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.
 * Am I doing this again? ... My memory is not as good as Justice Roberts'.
 * If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong.
 * I would tell members of my family, and I have, I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places right now. It's not that it's going to Mexico, it's that you are in a confined aircraft. When one person sneezes, it goes everywhere through the aircraft. That's me.

2010s

 * This is a big fucking deal
 * God save the queen.

2019
Biden's run for the 2020 Democratic nomination has so far brought out the worst of him, as seen here.


 * I just want you to know I had permission to hug Lonnie” and “By the way, he gave me permission to touch him,
 * I was in a caucus with James O. Eastland. He never called me 'boy,' he always called me 'son,' [...] Well guess what? At least there was some civility. We got things done, [...] We didn't agree on much of anything. We got things done. We got it finished.


 * Fourth Debate (July 31, 2019)
 * The bills that the president. Excuse me, future president [Cory Booker]
 * Go to Joe 30330


 * In between the debates
 * tragic events in Houston today and also in Michigan the day before.
 * We choose unity over division, we choose science over fiction, we choose truth over facts!
 * Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids [followed by an all too late correction of] [...] Wealthy kids, black kids, Asian kids.
 * I watched what happened when the kids from Parkland marched up to- and I met with them and they went off to the hill when I was vice president and they went off to the hill to go up to those neighborhoods,
 * I want to be clear, I’m not going nuts,” and “I’m not sure whether it was the medical school or where the hell I spoke. But it was on the campus.
 * The details are irrelevant in terms of decision-making
 * But if Donald Hump... Donald Trump is reelected, Freudian slip

2020
As the presidential election heated up and Biden was speaking more frequently, the pace at which he made gaffes ramped up.


 * One of the things I'm proudest of is getting passed, getting moved, getting in control of the Paris Climate Accord, I'm the guy who came back after meeting with Deng Xiaoping and making the case that I believe China will join if we put pressure on them. We got almost 200 nations to join.
 * Where I come from, you don’t go very far unless you ask. My name’s Joe Biden. I’m a Democratic candidate for the United States Senate,
 * Imagine if I said we give immunity to drug companies, we give immunity to tobacco companies. That has caused carnage on our streets. One hundred and fifty million people have been killed since 2007 when Bernie voted to exempt the gun manufacturers from liability. More than all the wars,
 * We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women were created by the go-, uh, you know the, you know the thing!
 * If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black.
 * He [ Trump ] says to them about the ‘Poor Boys’, last time we were on stage here. He said, ‘I told him to stand down and stand ready’. Come on. This guy has a dog whistle about as big as a fog horn.
 * We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics,

2021
Given that the president is expected to give public addresses, it's no surprise that Biden's gaffes continue into his presidency.


 * ...so I want to thank you both, and I want to thank the secretary, the former general - I keep calling him general - my... my, er... the guy who runs that outfit over there.
 * Visit vaccines.gum or text to your... text your zip code.
 * Since January 20 and we’re talking now about 15 months ago, the average daily cases are down from 184,000 to 19,000
 * And I want to thank that fella down under. Thank you very much pal.
 * ...all kidding aside, of course, President Harris, who’s a proud Howard alum, she might have something to say about Delaware State
 * Let's go Brandon, I agree.

2022

 * “It’s one thing if it’s a minor incursion, and then we end up having a fight about what to do and not do


 * Putin may circle Kyiv, but he'll never win the hearts of the Iranian people.


 * America can be defined in one word, *gibberish*


 * My mother drove us rather than us being able to walk and guess what' The first frost, you know what was happening'... That's why I and so damn many other people I grew up with have cancer and why for the longest time, Delaware had the highest cancer rate in the nation,


 * Jackie, are you here? Where's Jackie? I didn’t think she was – she wasn’t going to be here


 * That's why we defeated it in 2018 when they tried to do it. We went to 54 states


 * You think I don't know how fucking old I am?

2023

 * [Rob Kearney] was a hell of a rugby player, and he beat the hell out of the Black and Tans.
 * [Nancy Pelosi] helped rescue the economy in the Great Depression.
 * It's hard to tell really. But he's [Putin] clearly losing the war in Iraq.