President Biden is mocked for saying he has ‘been to each mass taking pictures’ throughout speech on gun violence outdoors the White Home – to cap off litany of gaffes

The gaffes got here thick and quick on the weekend as President Joe Biden launched an initiative on gun violence with a declare to have been to ‘each mass shooting’.

The weird comment got here days after he falsely claimed to have visited Ground Zero the day after 9/11, and have left many demanding to know whether or not he’s mendacity or forgetting.

Talking alongside vice-president Kamala Harris within the White House Rose Backyard he stated his administration had been ‘working relentlessly to do one thing’.

‘After each mass taking pictures, we hear a easy message, the identical message heard all around the nation, and I’ve been to each mass taking pictures.’

There have greater than 500 mass shootings within the US this yr up to now and critics had been scathing of their response to the most recent tall story on social media.

The president claimed to have ‘been to each mass taking pictures’ as he launched a gun management initiative on Friday alongside Maxwell Frost, 26, the youngest member of Congress 

In a speech to the Congressional Black Caucus on Saturday night time he stated: ‘Two of the nice artists of our time representing ground-breaking legacy of hip hop in America, LL Jay Cool J, uhhh…’ 

Response to the most recent gaffes was excoriating on social media 

‘Suspicious, if true,’ tweeted former US diplomat Alberto Fernandez.

‘Each weekend needs to be subsequently spent in Chicago as a substitute of Delaware,’ added Fox Information contributor Joe Concha.

‘Wow! He was at floor zero the day after 9/11, he fully understands to devastation of the Maui fires from his expertise of a kitchen fireplace, his son died in fight, and now he’s been to each mass taking pictures?’ wrote Cynthia Lynn.

The president managed to annoy friends with a speech to the Congressional Black Caucus on Saturday night time when he mangled the title of rapper LL Cool J, referring to him as a substitute as ‘LL Jay Cool J, uhhh…’ earlier than selecting ‘boy’.

The Rose Backyard speech got here simply minutes after White Home press chief Karine Jean-Pierre, needed to clarify why the president had repeated the identical story about why he ran for president to an viewers of fundraisers.

In line with a White Home pool report of the non-public occasion he started talking simply after 4pm in a front room in entrance of about two dozen folks.

Biden mentioned his financial document and mirrored on his choice to hunt the presidency and ‘talked in regards to the occasions of Charlottesville’ as the rationale for his marketing campaign, the report stated.

‘A couple of minutes later, he informed the story once more, almost phrase for phrase,’ the report went on.

Critics had been fast to pounce however had been divided on whether or not the President makes up tales or simply can not keep in mind what he has performed

‘It is essential to notice that the president was talking from his coronary heart,’ Jean-Pierre informed reporters.

‘I am not going to talk to feedback that had been made and through a marketing campaign occasion.’

The president joked about his age as he hosted the Rose Backyard occasion alongside the VP and Congress’s youngest member 26-year-old Home member Maxwell Frost.

‘I keep in mind after I was younger,’ he informed Frost.

‘We’ve got one thing in widespread. I received elected to Senate after I was 29 years outdated…that was 827 years in the past nevertheless it was some time.’

The brand new White Home Workplace of Gun Violence Prevention will probably be headed by Harris and try to assist cut back gun violence by ‘centralizing, accelerating and intensifying’ efforts to fight it.

‘Created by govt order, I made up my mind to ship a transparent message about how essential this subject is to me and to the nation,’ he informed he informed his viewers which included survivors of mass shootings.

‘All of us need our children to have the liberty to learn to learn and write as a substitute of duck and canopy, for God’s sake,’ he added.

He touted a bipartisan gun security measure that he signed into legislation, whereas acknowledging the modifications that stay stalled amid congressional opposition together with dug-in Home and Senate Republicans.

He referred to as for bringing again the expired assault weapons ban.

‘In case you want 80 photographs in {a magazine} you should not personal a gun,’ Biden stated.

Biden spoke about scholar actions just like the one which emerged after the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas highschool mass taking pictures in Parkland, Florida.

He quoted from college students he stated ‘spoke to a complete technology of People who is not going to be ignored who is not going to be shunned and won’t be silent.’

LL Cool J and MC Lyte obtained Phoenix Awards for his or her musical contributions on the annual ceremony in Washington DC

Gun management activist David Hogg, who survived the Parkland taking pictures, informed DailyMail.com after the occasion that Biden spoke to the broad-based effort by bringing Frost.

‘It is about exhibiting that that is an intergenerational coalition,’ he stated. 

‘The truth that President Biden joked in regards to the elephant within the room just a little bit, you realize, talked about he’s older. However he did begin when he was 29. 

‘Let’s discuss what comes with age: expertise. There is a motive he is been the best president in our lifetimes, and it is as a result of he is had many years of expertise within the Senate and throughout the federal government,’ he stated.