Biden speech today LIVE – Joe has awkward Satchel Paige gaffe while paying tribute to Negro League icon during remarks
PRESIDENT Joe Biden got caught in an awkward gaffe when he called Satchel Paige a “great negro at the time” during Veterans Day speech on Thursday.
“I’ve adopted the attitude of the great negro at the time, pitcher in the Negro leagues, went on to become a great pitcher in the pros, in the MLB after Jackie Robison, his name was Satchel Paige,” Biden said, speaking of Paige’s time playing in the Negro League.
The League was one composed of teams filled with African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latin Americans, in the 1920s.
The awkward moment occurred during a speech he gave at Arlington Cemetary on Thursday.
The speech came after alleged reports of an awkward encounter with Camilla Parker Bowles at the COP26 climate summit, when President Biden reportedly broke wind “loudly” while gassing with Camilla Parker Bowles at the COP26 summit.
The Duchess of Cornwall “hasn’t stopped talking about” the 78-year-old’s “long fart” as it was “impossible to ignore”, it’s reported.
An insider told the Mail on Sunday the royal was taken aback when she heard the American president break wind as they chatted at the climate change event in Glasgow.
“It was long and loud and impossible to ignore,” the source told the outlet. “Camilla hasn’t stopped talking about it.”
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