{"id":31996,"date":"2025-04-19T04:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T04:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/31996\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T04:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T04:21:08","slug":"joe-biden-drops-ice-cream-and-calls-ukraine-iraq-in-gaffe-filled-trip-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/31996\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden drops ice cream and calls Ukraine Iraq in gaffe-filled trip | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Biden<\/a> mistakenly called Ukraine Iraq and dropped his ice cream in a “gaffe” filled clandestine trip to Harvard University,<\/a> according to its student newspaper. The Harvard Crimson revealed his visit came as a surprise to students on Wednesday 17 April, after he was secretly invited to speak at a small politics seminar by senior advisor and Harvard fellow, Mike Donilon.<\/p>\n

Biden reportedly arrived shortly before 3pm for a photo opportunity with the Institute of Politics Student Advisory Committee, before heading to the private seminar with a select group of around 50 students. The Harvard Crimson reported: \u201cHis appearance was marked by gaffes of the sort that became political lightning rods during the 2024 presidential race, including mistakenly referring to Ukraine<\/a> as Iraq while discussing Russia<\/a>\u2019s invasion before Donilon corrected him.”<\/p>\n

It added: “When Biden bit into an ice cream bar after the talk, the partially melted dessert fell to the floor.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 82-year-old’s appearance was not advertised online, making one of his few public outings since the Presidential race ever more exclusive.<\/p>\n

His visit was organised weeks before Harvard’s confrontation with President Trump,<\/a> which came to boiling point after it refused demands to change hiring and courses.<\/p>\n

As a result, Harvard potentially faces its tax-exempt status being revoked, and a \u00a31.5 billion ($2.2 billion) funding freeze.<\/p>\n

The former President reportedly celebrated Harvard’s refusal, saying: \u201cHarvard stepped up in a way no one else has. You should be really thankful.\u201d<\/p>\n

When word got out about Biden’s visit, a group of pro-Palestinian<\/a> students attempted to disrupt the event by protesting outside the building, where they chanted, rang bells, and hammered drums.<\/p>\n

One attendee said the noise was faint and indistinguishable inside, but audible, reported The Harvard Crimson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Biden mistakenly called Ukraine Iraq and dropped his ice cream in a “gaffe” filled clandestine trip to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[32,18868,714,18869,12,659,18870,26,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-31996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-harvard-university","10":"tag-joe-biden","11":"tag-joe-biden-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-usa","14":"tag-usa-news","15":"tag-world","16":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114362717716537447","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}