On Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) mocked President Joe Biden for his State of the Union speech in which Biden used a word sounding like Iranians instead of Ukrainians, saying, “The president spoke for over an hour but only mentioned China twice, neither time had anything to do with national security or military modernization. The president only mentioned Iran one time, and it was literally by accident.”
WATCH: Kamala corrects Biden under her breath when Biden refers to “Ukrainians” as “Iranians.” pic.twitter.com/wkXcUpRu53
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McConnell also slammed Biden for dumping “huge subsidies into supply chains that are dominated by China … for our grandkids to Build Back Beijing.”
McConnell started by asserting, “Last night President Biden gave a State of the Union address that might have worked okay for a popular administration that had been successfully tackling America’s problems and actually earning high marks. That’s not the reality in which we live. Democrats spent the last 12 months making major and painful policy errors; the public overwhelmingly disapproves. President Biden didn’t need to say to coerce and rehash a scattered wish list; he needed to make a dramatic pivot, but he chose not to.”
“The president first discussed Ukraine; everyone agrees with the sentiments President Biden expressed; but the sentiments are not enough,” McConnell said. “The president articulated no meaningful new steps, no specific plan, he made no explicit commitment to keep flowing weapons, intelligence and advance capabilities into Ukraine as long as the Ukrainians need them. Nor did he explain why his administration was slow to supply lethal assistance in the first place.”
“Instead, the president focused on trying to claim credit for the remarkable European and worldwide response that his administration did not foresee, let alone orchestrate,” he snapped.
“Apart from Ukraine, the president’s other remarks on our dangerous world were not just insufficient, they were basically nonexistent,” McConnell continued. “The president spoke for over an hour but only mentioned China twice. Neither time had anything to do with national security or military modernization. The president only mentioned Iran one time, and it was literally by accident. Zero mentions of North Korea, zero mentions of the botched Afghanistan retreat the administration originally boasted was a ‘success.’ Our 13 servicemembers who lost their lives completely unmentioned until Governor Reynolds took the microphone. Zero mentions of rebuilding the defense budget that President Biden actually tried to cut last year.”
Turning to domestic issues, McConnell stated, “Meanwhile, the president’s speech tried to skate by the serious kitchen table concerns that are actually keeping families up at night. The president talked about ‘Made in America,’ that keeps fighting against energy independence. Democrats want us to buy American but not American oil or gas. On President Biden’s watch we’ve set a new record for imported Russian oil and we’re begging OPEC to produce even more. And his energy vision is to dump huge subsidies into supply chains that are dominated by China … for our grandkids to Build Back Beijing.”
.@LeaderMcConnell on Biden's SOTU: "The president spoke for over an hour but only mentioned China twice, neither time had anything to do with national security or military modernization. The president only mentioned Iran one time, and it was literally by accident." pic.twitter.com/NvdXM2lcSX
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