Gaffe-prone Biden calls a key ally 'xenophobic' and claims the U.S. economy is ... trends now
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President Joe Biden called a key ally 'xenophobic' and lopped the country in with adversaries Russia and China during a closed door fundraiser in Washington Wednesday night.
Biden marked the start of Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month by headlining an event at the storied Mayflower Hotel.
The president boasted about why the U.S. economy was stronger than several Asian nations.
'Why is China stalling so badly economically? Why is Japan having trouble? Why is Russia? Why is India? Because they're xenophobic,' Biden said. 'They don't want immigrants.'
Asked Thursday on Board Air Force One if Biden meant the dig at Japan, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre didn't give a direct answer.
President Joe Biden said at a closed door fundraiser Wednesday night to mark Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month that the key ally of Japan is 'xenophobic.' Biden is photographed Thursday departing for North Carolina
Last month the White House hosted Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (right) for an official state dinner. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre wouldn't say if President Joe Biden (left) would apologize for the slight to the Japanese
'I think the broader, the broader, the broader case that he was trying to make, which I think most, most leaders and allies across the globe understand, is he was trying - he was saying that when it comes to, when it comes to, when it comes to who we are as a nation, we are a nation of immigrants, that is in our DNA,' she answered
