President Joe Biden appeared to forget the name of his own Secretary of Defense on Wednesday, referring to Lloyd Austin as the “Black man” in an interview with Black Entertainment Television (BET).
During the interview, Biden boasted about his record of appointing Black people in his administration and claimed he had received heat for doing so.
“It’s all about treating people with dignity,” he said. “For example, look at the heat I’m getting because I named a, uh, the secretary of defense, [the or a] Black man.”
He then incorrectly referred to Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson as just “Ketanji Brown,” before concluding, “I mean, because of the people I’ve named. It’s about making…
