Joe Biden calls Secretary of Defense ‘black man’ and struggles to remember his name

The clip quickly went viral on social media, with users arguing over whether Biden actually said “a black man” or “the black man” when referring to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.

Political commentator Emma Vigeland tweeted: “Biden forgets Lloyd Austin’s name and calls him ‘the black man’. Let’s see how the Biden deadbeats spin this.”

Investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen added: “A POTUS who can’t remember the name of his SecDef – and instead calls him ‘the black man’ – is not mentally equipped to be in charge of 5,000 nuclear weapons.”

Reporter Ken Klippenstein pushed back: to argue: “I think people are misinterpreting this clip. If you listen carefully, Biden seems to say “the Secretary of Defense, a black man” and not “the black man”; and the context is that he lists his black appointees.