‘My Mind Is Going Blank Now’

President Joe Biden on Thursday forgot one thing that really occurred and remembered one thing that didn’t.

Biden participated in a video convention held to mark the start of a number of main Jewish holidays.

Throughout his comments, he introduced up the 2018 bloodbath on the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.

“I keep in mind spending time on the — you realize, going to the — you realize, the Tree of Life Synagogue, talking with the — simply — it simply is wonderful these items are occurring — occurring in America,” he mentioned.

Barb Feige, government director of Tree of Life since July 2019, mentioned Biden by no means visited the synagogue after the capturing, in keeping with the New York Post.

Biden additionally wandered afield right into a memory of the 2012 wedding ceremony of his daughter Ashley and Howard Krein, who’s Jewish, Fox News reported.

Biden’s mind snaps as he tries to recollect his *personal* daughter’s wedding ceremony & pander to rabbis:

“My thoughts goes clean now, what’s the tune that’s performed, with everyone across the chairs, up? I can’t keep in mind— anyhow I’m taking an excessive amount of of your time.”

That is soooo painful. pic.twitter.com/RUQes43dXl

— Benny (@bennyjohnson) September 2, 2021

“My daughter married a Jewish younger man. And — you realize, dream of each — each Catholic father that she marry a Jewish physician,” he mentioned.

“And — and we wished to have a co-confessional wedding ceremony,” Biden mentioned. “And we had a chuppah on the altar, and we had a co- — it was co-officiated. Now, a few of you aren’t going to love this, nevertheless it was co-officiated by a Catholic priest in addition to a Jewish rabbi.”

Then Biden started to have memory problems.

“And I solely requested one factor. They requested me — and I organized it — and I solely requested one factor. There’s a psalm based mostly — there’s a hymn — my favourite hymn within the Catholic Church based mostly on a psalm, and it’s — it’s a psalm that talks about life. And — and so, I — I requested if that ps- — that psalm — that hymn within the Catholic Church,” he mentioned.

“And it says, ‘Might He elevate you up on Eagle’s wings and bear you on the breath of daybreak, and let the sunshine shine upon you,’ et cetera, and — ‘and maintain you within the palm of his hand.’”

“And so they performed — and I’m — my thoughts goes clean now. What’s the tune that’s performed the place everyone is on the chair?  Everyone, you realize — what — what — I can’t keep in mind it. Anyway. And that’s the tune that was performed,” he mentioned.

“So, you realize, I don’t know what the hell is occurring right here. I simply had one little favor — you realize, simply that they play “On the Wi- — On Eagle’s Wings,” he mentioned eventually.

Biden talking to Rabbis: “The dream of each Catholic father is that his daughter marry a Jewish physician.”

Oy vey. 🤦‍♂️ #RoshHashanah2021 https://t.co/53Z0F6zgTM

— Adam Steinberg (@ASteinberg680) September 2, 2021

Biden additionally spoke about taking his children to Europe.

“On my sixteenth birthday of every of my youngsters, I put them on a aircraft and take them to — to Europe. And the primary cease I’ve taken them to was to enter one of many focus camps, as a result of I wished them to see how this could occur once more. I wished them to see, as that — as, you realize, Auschwitz and different locations. We didn’t — that’s not the place I took the primary one,” he mentioned.