President Joe Biden‘s apology on Friday to Native Americans didn’t go so smoothly.
Speaking at the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona, Biden expressed remorse for a federal government policy that took thousands of Native American children from their parents and forced them into boarding schools for more than 150 years.
But the outgoing president, 81, misread the Gila River Indian Community’s name from his teleprompter.
“There’s nothing wrong with me,” he said after stumbling over the words.
Biden then appeared to reference former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the wife of Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), in the past tense.
Biden’s speech was also interrupted by a pro-Palestinian, pro-Gaza protester. He encouraged the crowd to “let her talk.”
“There’s a lot of innocent people being killed. There’s a lot of innocent people being killed,…
