Mitterrand held office from 1981 to 1995 and remains France’s longest-ever serving president. He died in 1996 at the age of 79.
The one where … Netanyahu feels nostalgic for Yeltsin
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mistakenly referred to his British counterpart Boris Johnson as Boris Yeltsin, the former (and very much dead) Russian president, at a speech during a Cabinet meeting in 2019.
“I’ve returned from a very pleasant visit in London, where I’ve met with Prime Minister Boris Yeltsin and the U.S. defense secretary,” Netanyahu said, before quickly correcting himself that he meant Johnson. Yeltsin died in 2007.
Netanyahu’s office clumsily attempted to edit out the gaffe in a video of his speech published on social media. Spot the seamless cutaway here at about nine seconds in.
The one where … BoJo praises a dictator for his international leadership
We’ve been here before! Biden isn’t the first political leader to mix up Putin and Zelenskyy.
In September 2022, some six months into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson accidentally thanked, you guessed it, Vladimir Putin for his international leadership instead of Zelenskyy.
Luckily for him, unlike Biden’s blunder, Zelenskyy wasn’t standing next to Johnson at the time.
