The new year marks an unhappy farewell for President Joe Biden, the self-proclaimed leader of the gaffe device that delivered more memorable turns of phrase than this George W. Bush look.

After documenting his most productive mistakes of 2022 and 2023, the Washington Examiner commemorates the most sensible gaffes of Biden’s year for the last time in 2024, unless he cries until January 20, when President-elect Donald Trump takes office post.

Without further delay, here are Biden’s most notable verbal slips of the year.

The year got off to an inauspicious start for Biden, who in January mistook a woman he took a photo with for Rep. Deborah Ross (D-NC), who was unavailable at the time.

“I need to mention Congresswoman Deborah Ross, where is Deborah?Biden asked in a speech on bidenomy. They just took a picture of me with her, that’s probably why she left. “

Eventually, Biden added, “Oh, she couldn’t be here, actually. That’s not true. I got it mixed up.”

It will be the last time.

Things got messier in February when Biden confused current French President Emmanuel Macron with former French President François Mitterrand — who died in 1996.

In fact, Biden called the late leader “Germany’s Mitterrand” before correcting himself and saying “France’s. “

“Immediately after my election, I went to what they call a G7 meeting, which brought together all the leaders of NATO,” said Biden, who was 81 at the time. “I sat down and said, ‘America is back,’ and Mitterrand from Germany (I mean France) looked at me and said, ‘You know, why? How long are you coming back?'”

Biden was making an anti-Trump argument about the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, but that mistake and others didn’t help his case throughout the year. A few days later he continued to confuse former German Chancellor Angela Merkel with her predecessor Helmut Kohl, who died in 2017.

The president was still hoping to be re-elected when he delivered a fiery State of the Union speech in March, widely praised by the press.

Even there, however, he stumbled upon a mistake or two, such as when Biden, at the urging of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), spoke of the death of Laken Riley, a Georgia nursing student, at the hands of an illegal criminal. immigrant. However, he gave the impression of saying “Lincoln Riley” instead.

“And Laken Riley?” Greene shouted from his seat on the bedroom floor.

Biden paused and then looked to his right, where he had placed on the ground a “Laken Riley” pin that Greene had given him in his motorcade.

Biden picked up the pin and said: “Lincoln Riley, an innocent young woman who killed through an illegal act! Exactly? But how many thousands of other people are killed through lawful officials?

He later said he regretted the term “illegals. “

The teleprompter has caused Biden more than one challenge his presidency, adding in April when he gave the impression to read commands to the public.

“Folks, imagine what we can do next. Four more years. Pause,” Biden said before the crowd at his speech began a “four more years” chant.

Biden looked for a second and then, seeming to realize what had happened, broke out with his trademark smile.

Wasting no time, Trump pointed out the error soon after, and his campaign shared the clip and called Biden “cognitively disabled. “

Biden enjoyed a long tenure as vice president from 2009 to early 2017, but in his May remarks he gave the impression that he had held the post in 2020.

“When I was vice president, things were kinda bad during the pandemic,” he said. “Barack [Obama] said to me, ‘Go to Detroit, and help fix it!’”

Going to Detroit probably wouldn’t have helped much in overcoming the pandemic, if Biden had been allowed to go, but the White House later corrected the transcript to read “the recession. “

A similar mistake occurred later in the summer, when Biden appeared to say he was the “first vice president, the first black woman to serve under a black president. “

This particular gaffe came after Biden’s disastrous June 27 debate performance, at a point when politicos were starting to wonder if Vice President Kamala Harris, the person Biden was trying to reference, could take his place. Those questions only intensified as the summer progressed.

Another mistake involving the vice president occurred on July 11, when Biden was fighting for his political life.

Holding a “big guys” press conference to reaffirm his confidence in his abilities, the president inspired his first response, referring to “Vice President Trump” when referring to Harris.

“I wouldn’t have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president if I thought she’s not qualified to be president,” Biden said. “So let’s start here.”

Things did not improve from that moment on.

Still grasping on to the Democratic nomination on July 16, Biden rolled out a policy proposal that would limit rent increases to 5% a year. Struggling once again to read the teleprompter, he squinted before announcing a different number.

“Look, folks, the concept that corporate-owned housing can raise the rent, [300], $400 a month or something? Well, I’m about to announce that they can’t raise it more than…” Biden said, warning and leaning forward, “$55. ”

Although the crowd enjoyed it, the number is too clever to be true and some other mistake by Biden.

Biden ultimately abandoned his re-election bid on July 21 in favor of Harris, at which point the spotlight faded significantly. They only made a small handful of errors in the second half, yet they still managed to make an impact in their own way.

The president has criticized Trump for using the term “moonlighting,” only to use it himself in a twist of fate in mid-September.

“With your help, in just three and a half years, we’ve created more than 2 million new jobs for blacks, for black Americans, and for blacks,” the president murmured, pausing amid laughter from the audience.

Trying to recover, he added, “By the way, the next black job to be filled is as president of the United States of America,” turning the laughter into cheers.

In the final days of the 2024 campaign, Biden has undermined his successor’s efforts, perhaps never more visibly than the now-infamous “trash” gaffe.

Exactly one week before Election Day and as Harris was about to deliver her final speech, Biden called all of Trump’s supporters “trash,” drawing comparisons to Trump’s “basket of deplorables” comment. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

“The trash I see floating around is your supporters,” Biden said.

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This triggered a series of occasions when the White House replaced the transcript to read “partisan,” meaning one more user than millions of voters, and Democrats temporarily distanced themselves from this comment.

But the damage was done. Trump won the election, and the era of Biden gaffes will come to an end at noon on Jan. 20.