President Joe Biden has stumbled over his words in an awkward moment during a radio interview where he appeared to describe himself as a black woman.
US President Joe Biden has become victim to his own error-prone ways again, after making an embarrassing blunder while speaking on radio.
Every move Biden makes is under scrutiny now after the President's disastrous performance in his debate with Donald Trump last week, moderated by CNN.
During the debate, Biden appeared weary, spoke with a hoarse voice and struggled to produce coherent sentences on an evening which led to many calling for the 81-year-old to step out of the election race.
On Thursday, Biden joined Philadelphia radio station WURD, where he appeared to bizarrely mix himself up with Vice President Kamala Harris as well as his tenure as vice president to former US leader Barack Obama.
"By the way, I'm proud to be, as I said, the first vice president, first black woman... to serve with a black president. Proud to be involved of the first black woman on the Supreme Court. There's so much that we can do because, look... we're the United States of America," he said.
While Biden clearly got his words mixed up, he was referring to Ketanji Brown-Jackson, who became the first female black justice when he appointed her.
The blunder came after he earlier on Thursday accidentally referred to his presidential rival Donald Trump as "one of our colleagues" during his address to military families on the White House lawn.
The White House has acted staunchly in its defence of the first octogenarian president, with Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre having to leap to his defence on a number of occasions.
“He is as sharp as ever, as I have known him to be in my engagement, in my experience with him," she told reporters on Wednesday.
"And I know when I walk into the Oval Office or or see him on Air Force One, I have to be on top of my game.”
Biden admitted himself he wasn't in the best shape on the debate night, revealing earlier this week he "almost fell asleep" during the major event.
He also acknowledged his performance was below-par when discussing it with a local radio show.
“I had a bad night,” Biden told Earl Ingram, host of Waukesha, Wisconsin station WAUK.
“The fact of the matter is I screwed up. I made a mistake. I learned from my father when you get knocked down, you just get back up.
"I didn’t have a good debate. That’s 90 minutes on stage. Look at what I’ve done in 3.5 years."