President Appears To Forget Name of Defense Secretary, Calls Him ‘The Black Man’ ‘Look at the heat I’m getting because I named a, uh, the secretary of defense, the Black man.’ Secretary Blinken, left, ...

President Joe Biden appeared to call U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin “the black man” after forgetting his name during an interview Tuesday with Black Entertainment Television (BET). The ...

The clip quickly went viral on social media, with users arguing over whether Biden actually said “a Black man” or “the Black man” when referring to defense secretary Lloyd Austin.

President Joe Biden appeared to forget the name of his own Secretary of Defense, referring to Lloyd Austin as the "Black man" in an interview with BET. The post Biden Appears To Forget Name of ...

President Joe Biden appeared to forget the name of his own Secretary of Defense on Wednesday, referring to Lloyd Austin as the “Black man” in an interview with Black Entertainment Television ...

President Biden faced criticism online after he appeared to forget the name of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, only referring to him as a “Black man" in an interview with BET.

Mr. Biden appeared to forget the name of his Secretary of Defense, Lloyd J. Austin III, and instead refers to him as the “Black man” in an interview with BET.

“Look at the heat I’m getting because I named a — the, uh — secretary of defense, a Black man,” Mr. Biden, before pivoting to his appointment of the first Black female Supreme Court justice.

“Look at the heat I’m getting because I, I named a, uh, the, uh, secretary of defense — the black man,” Biden stated. “I named [Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson] — I mean ...