Biden’s latest gaffe has him in the same camp as Trump: ‘We can’t be trusted’

President Joe Biden made an unfortunate gaffe on Tuesday as he tried to slam his Republican rival Donald Trump on stage at a campaign event about abortion care and reproductive rights in Florida.

Speaking to a crowd of supporters, the president slipped up as he asked how many more times he needs to prove “we” can’t be trusted.

“Folks, in a sense, I don’t know why we’re surprised by Trump,” he said.

“How many times does he have to prove we can’t be trusted?” he asked.

Mistakenly saying “we” instead of “he”, Mr Biden accidentally lumped himself in with his Republican rival.

This marks only the latest in a long series of gaffes the president has made while speaking in public, with his track record of blunders increasingly used by Mr Trump and his supporters to claim that the 81-year-old is too old to serve another term in the White House and is in a state of “cognitive decline”.

However, Mr Trump, at the similar age of 77, also contradicts himself in arguing the reverse: that his successor is a brilliant criminal mastermind who has “weaponised” the justice system against him, claiming, without evidence, that all of the indictments he is currently battling have been launched against him at Mr Biden in order to damage his White House campaign.

Mr Trump meanwhile has also had plenty of “senior moments” of his own, notably confusing his former Republican rival Nikki Haley with former House speaker Nancy Pelosi, mixing up Mr Biden with his own predecessor, Barack Obama, and even reportedly falling asleep during his Manhattan hush money trial.

Mr Biden was in Tampa on Tuesaday to headline a campaign event at Hillsborough Community College focused on rallying women and supporters of reproductive rights just one week before a new