President Biden Friday again made an exaggeration about the number of times he’s been to the Middle East, as he gave a commencement speech to U.S. Naval Academy graduates in Maryland.
“I’ve been in and out of Iraq and Afghanistan of over 40 I think 38 times,” the president said.
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Friday’s clarification by the NSC is also just the latest of several recent comments from the president that his team needed to walk back.
Most recently, the White House was forced to clean up a comment Biden made which indicated the U.S. may defend Taiwan militarily if attacked by China.
Earlier this year, Biden made a gaffe saying the U.S. may not have a response to a “minor incursion” by Russia into Ukraine, which his staff walked back. And in Warsaw, Poland this year, Biden said, “this man cannot remain in power,” referring to Putin. The White House quickly clarified that Biden was not calling for regime change in Russia.