NBC host Kristen Welker is being ridiculed online after messing up President Biden's name during a report about Biden messing up names.
Welker, who has in the past been accused of "jeopardizing democracy" with her coverage of Trump's alleged election subversion efforts, was recently reporting on how Biden flubbed some names, including that of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The president quickly corrected himself.
"The president was clearly comfortable discussing foreign policy issues from Ukraine to China, but he did mix up Vice President Harris and former President Trump's names mere minutes into the event, just hours after mistakenly calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy President Putin," Welker reporter before a commercial break.
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Upon her return to the news broadcast, Welker said, "Welcome back. One group that's happy about how president Trump -- President Biden's news conference went last night are Republicans -- especially those around President Trump."
The internet took notice of the mistake.
@MeidasTouch pointed it out for others on social media: "Kristen Welker spent her show hammering President Biden for accidentally getting names wrong and asking if Biden should step aside, and then moments later she called President Biden 'President Trump,'" they wrote late Friday.
@taradublinrocks replied that "Kristen Welker should step aside, unless she’s willing to take a dementia test live on TV."
Charli Huxley, @ImKnotTheOne, said that "Kristen Welker experiencing karma in real time was very pleasing."
Former federal prosecutor Shan Wu asked, "Where are the medical experts offering their diagnosis that this was just a innocuous mistake making cognitive testing unnecessary?"
@gmg825 also said that "slips of the tongue are common."
"How many times do parents call their kids the wrong name? Sometimes growing up my parents would even call us by the dog’s name. It happens. No one says the kids should be removed because parents don’t know their names!" the user wrote. "Indeed, in 2018, while Trump was still serving as President, he introduced Marillyn Hewson, then CEO of Lockheed Martin, as 'Marillyn Lockheed' at a White House event. At another White House meeting the following year, Trump famously referred to Apple CEO Tim Cook as 'Tim Apple.' So how come no one said he should resign?"
