July 13 :
The spokeswoman for Russia's Foreign Ministry made a joke about Joe Biden being "a pro-Russian candidate being controlled by the Kremlin" on July 12, following the U.S. president's gaffe in referring to the head of Ukraine as "President Putin" before rectifying himself.
Russian news programs heavily broadcast footage of the incident at the NATO meeting in Washington. Russian state TV pundits have long portrayed 81-year-old Biden as a foolish old man who could accidentally start World War III, in contrast to 71-year-old Putin, whom they paint as a geopolitical genius.
In addition, it was covered when Biden confused the name of his Republican opponent, Donald Trump, with that of his vice president, Kamala Harris. Pro-Kremlin TV pundit Olga Skabeyeva shared a video of Biden's embarrassing stumble when mentioning Putin on her social media accounts, along with an emoticon that showed her crying and laughing. "The show from Joe goes on!," she remarked separately under the video of the Trump/Harris name mix-up.
It was widely recognized, according to the Kremlin, that Biden had made mistakes. Everybody was watching what happened, and we couldn't help but notice it. "It's evident that these were slips of the tongue," stated Dmitry Peskov, a spokesperson for the Russian government.
While he acknowledged that Biden's blunders were "an internal U.S. topic," he also stated that the Kremlin had taken note of the president's disparaging remarks about Putin, whom he had called "a murderous madman."
"This is unacceptable to us, and we don't think it in any way makes an American head of state look good," stated the Russian leader.
The media and criticism within Russia were mostly focused on Biden's linguistic gaffes.Biden appeared to make a mistake every day due to his "retarded" mental state, according to Sergei Markov, a longtime adviser to the Kremlin.
The prominent Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova mocked what Moscow views as unfounded US accusations of Russian interference in American politics in a sarcastic piece that made fun of Biden's gaffe in addressing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as "President Putin."
In my opinion, the long-suspected "Russian interference in the American elections" is now front and center, with Biden being a pro-Russian candidate who is allegedly "hand-picked" by the Kremlin. On her official Telegram account, Zakharova made casual jokes.
A number of his fellow Democrats have been urging him to drop his re-election campaign, and Biden has been making a number of gaffes recently.
Foreign policy hawks in Russia took Biden's gaffes as another evidence of his deteriorating mental faculties, and some were worried that the world's leading military power was being commanded by someone whose cognitive powers seemed to be deteriorating. Moscow is keeping a careful eye on the American election.
Following Moscow's deployment of tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine in 2022, in what it refers to as "a special military operation" meant to safeguard its own national security, U.S.-Russia relations hit a new low, paralleling the 1961 Cuban Missile Crisis.
According to Putin, who spoke earlier this month, Trump's stated desire to stop the war was genuine, but he was unaware of Trump's plans for implementing this desire if elected. Kiev views Moscow's recent signals as a sign of its openness to a ceasefire agreement, but on maximalist terms that it views as akin to surrender; Washington is Ukraine's primary sponsor. Putin has played up Trump's rumored plans to end the war, even though he has stated that Russia will be unaffected by the U.S. election in November
