Donald Trump had good reason to gloat over Joe Biden’s press conference flub referring to ‘Vice President Trump’. It was preceded earlier in the day by Biden calling Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky ‘President Putin.’ Biden, in other words, was at it again.
But Biden adeptly seized the opportunity to offer a little lesson in foreign affairs in his presser at the Nato summit in Washington, zooming from Ukraine to China to Israel. Along the way, he got to flash his bona fides, including the declaration that he has spent a grand total of 90 hours speaking with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Biden was a man on a mission. His campaign message could not be clearer: he is intent on proving not only that America is the indispensable nation, but he is its indispensable president, the only politician who can safeguard its alliances and prosperity.
No one has reason to be happier with the outcome of the press conference than Trump
Biden sought to demonstrate staying power, returning to the theme of the menace of Trump towards the end of his press conference.
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