All nations have uncomfortable aspects of their history that they need to come to terms with. It was a dumb thing to say for a President, especially if there's no proof, but it's also a dumb thing to get upset over for a Prime Minister when it is a part of their history.
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Yeah imagine getting upset over someone blatantly lieing about your country by claiming they ate WW2 soliders. /s
I am sure that Biden was being super spiteful and melicious about it and was deliberately lying rather than passing down hearsay from his family he overheard throughout his life /s.
No, wasn't a good look politically, and I do agree with New Guinea the US should do more to recover our fallen soldiers whose remains are still missing on foreign soil. Glad this conversation can put a spotlight there. But this is a minor gaff, simple as that.
Or whipping slaves!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister James Marape accused Joe Biden of disparaging the South Pacific island nation by implying that an uncle of the U.S. president had been eaten by “cannibals” there during World War II.
The president spoke at a Pennsylvania war memorial last week about his Army Air Corps aviator uncle Ambrose Finnegan, who was shot down over Papua New Guinea, which was a theater of heavy fighting.
“President Biden’s remarks may have been a slip of the tongue; however, my country does not deserve to be labeled as such,” Marape said in a statement provided by his office to The Associated Press on Monday.
The rift comes as Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese began a visit on Monday to Papua New Guinea, Australia’s nearest neighbor.
Albanese and Marape will commemorate strong defense ties between the two countries by walking part of a pivotal battle ground known as the Kokoda Track later this week.
Marape’s statement was released on the same day he met China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Port Moresby to discuss building closer relations.
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- "Poor kids are as smart as white kids"
- "If you don't vote for me, you ain't black."
- "My uncle was eaten by cannibals in Papua New Guinea during WW2" (ignoring that there was fucking war with Japan during then, the probable more likely option)
- Continues to build the wall on the border Man he really is just an out of touch racist grandpa, isn't he? Like god damn. Trump is openly racist, Biden has a filter that has a few holes in it/