Biden deletes tweet thanking Vietnamese president with photo of the wrong leader
By Victor Nava
Published Sep. 12, 2023, 12:06 a.m. ET
President Biden thanked his Vietnamese counterpart on Monday in a since-deleted tweet that erroneously featured the leader of the country’s national assembly.
“President Vo Van Thuong, thank you for such a productive meeting. This partnership is about unleashing our peoples’ potential and, with it, a range of incredible possibilities,” read the 80-year-old president’s post on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
The image in the post, however, was not of the president meeting Thuong, but one of Biden greeting Vietnam’s National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue.
Both men are bespectacled and have black hair parted to the same side.
The tweet, which came from Biden’s official @POTUS account, was later deleted and has not been replaced as of late Monday night.
“YIKES,” writer John Hasson said in a tweet after spotting the error.
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