Biden suggests very alive former Rep. Gabby Giffords is lifeless after weird comment: ‘Nothing incorrect with me’

President Biden appeared to recommend Friday that former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.) is both lifeless or divorced— and not his pal — in an obvious gaffe shortly after he advised members of a Native American neighborhood that there’s “nothing incorrect with me.” 

“Thanks to Sen. Mark Kelly, an ideal pal — who additionally was married to an unimaginable girl who was my pal,” the 81-year-old president advised the Gila River Indian Group, simply south of Phoenix. 

Kelly, a Democratic senator from Arizona, has been married to Giffords — who’s very a lot alive — since 2007. 

The previous congresswoman was shot within the head at a constituent discussion board in Tucson in January 2011 and miraculously survived. 

Giffords resigned from the Home of Representatives a yr later to deal with her restoration. 

Moments earlier than that blunder, Biden stumbled over the identify of the reservation he was visiting and oddly reassured the gang that he was OK. 

“I’m Joe Biden and I’m Jill Biden’s husband,” the president mentioned on the high of his speech. “Gov, thanks for that introduction. And to the Gila Indian River Group — the Gila… the Gila … nothing incorrect with me.” 

He finally bought the identify proper. 

“The Gila River Indian Group, [thank you] for welcoming me at the moment,” Biden mentioned. 

The president appeared to have hassle studying the teleprompters within the cruel Arizona solar. 

He whipped off his trademark aviator sun shades as he started his remarks solely to place them again on a few minute later. 

“I’m placing these glasses on as a result of I’m having hassle seeing this,” Biden admitted. 

In his remarks, Biden apologized on behalf of the federal authorities for the historic coverage of forcing Native American youngsters into assimilation-focused boarding colleges. 

“I formally apologize, as president of the USA of America, for what we did,” the president mentioned.

“It’s lengthy, lengthy, lengthy overdue. Fairly frankly, there’s no excuse that this apology took 50 years.”