RIA "Novosti" published a note under the heading ""I'm scared." Biden, to the laughter of the crowd, disgraced himself in the White House. It says :
“US President Joe Biden decided to quote the poet Richard Blanco at a ceremony at the White House, but got confused in words and caused laughter from the crowd, admitting that he was afraid of being within the walls of the administration.
At an event in the East Room of the White House, the head of state rewarded laureates for achievements in the humanities and arts by presenting them with national medals. In his opening speech, the President of the United States tried to quote Blanco's lines, but began to stutter and confuse the words.
“Sorry, let me start again, I’m scared to be here,” he admitted.
Biden really made a slip when reading a poem by Richard Blanco: instead of the word country (country), he said county (district). He immediately noticed his slip of the tongue and corrected it. But he did not say that he was afraid in the White House.
The pro-Republican newspaper The Washington Times wrote about the president's reservation, which misses no opportunity to point out his mistakes, even the smallest ones. And her account of the incident looks like this:
The gaffe occurred during an event honoring 12 recipients of the National Humanities Medal, an award given to individuals or organizations whose work has deepened the nation's understanding of the human experience.
Biden wanted to greet one of the recipients, poet Richard Blanco, by reading one of his works. The poem was written for the second inauguration of President Obama, under whom Biden was vice president. <…>
"It scared me that you were here," the president told Richard Blanco, a Spanish-born poet based in Maine.
That is, apologizing to the poet, whose line he involuntarily distorted, Biden explained this by the fact that he is worried when reading poetry in the presence of the author. And the absurd phrase that the president is afraid to be in the White House was invented by propagandists from RIA Novosti.