President Joe Biden has came out and said he would be doing 9/11 as he was quizzed by reporters ahead of the debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
Speaking outside of the White House ahead of the presidential debate, the 81-year-old said: Im going up to my granddaughters birthday in New York.
Then we are going to watch the debate, then tomorrow we are doing 9/11. I spoke to the Vice President, she is calm, cool and collected.
The presidents remark concerning the anniversary of the September 11 attacks on America caused some on social media to raise their eyebrows at his phrasing.
President Biden speaks to the press before he departs from the White House for New York in Washington DC on September 10, 2024
On social media platform X, one person commented: Biden’s slip-ups are endless. You’d think someone would double-check his scripts by now.
Another posted: Yup... He done, while someone added: Gotta be honest until I saw that tomorrow Im doing 9/11 clip just now I kind of forget Joe Biden was even alive.
A Trump campaign associated X account shared the clip, saying: This is the humiliating cognitive decline Kamala Harris COVERED UP.
It is the latest in a long line of blunders for the commander in chief who stepped down from his reelection race after a disastrous debate performance against Trump.
Just days before his shock announcement, he had even referred to Vice President Harris as Donald Trump.
Other mishaps have included him bumping into flagpoles, falling off bicycles, and calling people by the wrong name.
Biden is set to mark the anniversary of the attacks in New York City before also visiting the Pentagon and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, memorials.
Conspirators from al-Qaida seized control of airplanes and hit New Yorks World Trade Center and the Pentagon near Washington.
Hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 from Boston crashes into the south tower of the World Trade Center and explodes at 9:03 a.m. on September 11
A fourth plane was headed for Washington but crashed in Pennsylvania after crew members and passengers tried to storm the cockpit.
Officially, the casualty count associated with the attacks is numbered at 2,996 - including 2,977 victims and 19 hijackers.
Thousands more were injured, and New York bore the brunt of the death toll - with an estimated 1,600 victims in the North Tower and another thousand in the South.