Joe Biden Accidentally Eulogizes Someone Alive

There is no bigger honor that one can receive than to have the president of the United States eulogize you after you pass away.

It’s a little weird, though, if you’re not dead.

Mediaite writes that there was one problem with the president’s eulogy of Gabby Giffords.

On Friday afternoon, Biden was in Arizona to apologize to Native Americans nationwide on behalf of the U.S. government for the atrocities committed in boarding schools for Indian children.

Prior to his comments on Native American children, the president was introduced on stage by Gov. Stephen Lewis of the Gila River Indian Community. Biden thanked Lewis, introduced himself, offered Sen. Kelly a shoutout, and then appeared to refer to Giffords in the past tense:

I’m Joe Biden, Jill Biden’s husband. Governor, thank you for the introduction. And to the – Gila River Indian Community – for welcoming me today. You know, I say this with all sincerity. This, to me, is one of the most consequential things I’ve ever had the opportunity to do in my career as President of the United States. it is an honor, a genuine honor to be in this special place on this special day. Thank you to Senator Mark Kelly, a great friend who also was married to an incredible woman who was my friend.

It wasn’t the first time Biden prematurely buried someone. As vice president in 2010, Biden asked for a blessing for the mother of Ireland’s prime minister, stating, “God bless her soul,” despite her being very much alive.

Biden mistakenly referred to gabby Giffords as if she were not longer alive.

Joe Biden “Thank you to Sen. Mark Kelly, a great friend who also was married to an incredible woman who was my friend.”

Gabby Giffords, Kelly’s wife is alive… pic.twitter.com/mOxHkrHrBf

— Johncast (@johncastnow) October 25, 2024

Biden visited Arizona to issue an apology for the United States’ longstanding policy that, for over 150 years, forcibly separated generations of Indigenous children from their families, placing them in federally supported boarding schools aimed at forced assimilation.

“I formally apologize as president of the United States of America for what we did,” Biden said. “It’s long overdue.”

The president’s apology, delivered on tribal land at the Gila River Indian Reservation, follows a years-long investigation led by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland—the first Native American Cabinet secretary and a member of the Pueblo of Laguna. Haaland’s own grandparents had been separated from their families as a result of this policy.

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