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BLUNDERING Joe Biden has been slammed by Unionists for confusing a rugby team with a brutal police force.
The US President referred to New Zealand’s All Blacks as Black and Tans — a Brit regiment sent to Ireland in the 1920s to help crush nationalist rebels.
Joe Biden confused a New Zealand rugby team with a brutal police force in Ireland in a gaffe in County LouthGetty
The US President also appeared in a selfie with former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams in DublinSupplied
He made the slip at a pub in County Louth while thanking his distant cousin Rob Kearney, who played for Ireland, for a tie gift.
Mr Biden, 80, insisted: “This was given to me by one of these guys, right here.
“He was a hell of a rugby player.
“He beat the hell out of the Black and Tans.”
The White House issued a correction but Mr Biden’s error sparked claims that he favours Ireland over the UK.
Tom Elliott, an Ulster Unionist Party assembly member at Stormont, said the gaffe showed the President was “on the side of the nationalist community”.
He said: “He doesn’t even try to be neutral in those occasions, he just declares his Irishness and that he isn’t an honest broker in our view.”
DUP MP Sammy Wilson said he was a “bumbling bigot”.
Today the US President met Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and addressed both houses of the Dail and Seanad Parliament.
Mr Biden also appeared in a selfie with former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams in Dublin.
Source: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/22036094/ ... -and-tans/