Memory lapse or new nickname? Joe Biden calls Scott Morrison 'that fella Down Under'

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It might have been an awkward fumble or just a term of endearment, but having Joe Biden give Scott Morrison a new name is not the most embarrassing thing that's happened to an Australian leader in the US.

"The president had a very cordial conversation with Prime Minister Trumble," he said.

And in 2003, then-opposition foreign affairs spokesman Kevin Rudd expressed regret when he found himself in a New York strip club on a taxpayer-funded trip to the US. "I had had too much to drink," the future PM said when details of the trip to Scores emerged during the 2007 election campaign.The club owner, Elliot Osher, would later say"I guess when he sat down he kind of realised it was a strip club and he said, 'Oh no, this won't do,'" he said.Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser believed he was drugged and robbed of his pants during a trip to the US in 1986.

In 1986, the-then PM appeared at a reception desk of a hotel in Memphis with a towel wrapped around his waist.Mr Fraser refused to talk about the incident publicly, only to say: "I wish I'd never been to bloody Memphis.""Poor old boy. It's really horrible. He was so embarrassed. And still is," she said in 2007.But the Prime Minister seemed unperturbed by the possibility that his new strategic partner may have briefly forgotten his name.

 

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I’d like to forget his name too.

More like utter contempt for Australia. We are nothing but a strategic convenience for the U S. A great southern aircraft carrier.

Down under, the desk like Monika Lewinsky

NuclearWaste is a major risk and causes plenty of cancer because it cannot be stored safely. If we store it on an uninhabited island & send the decision-makers to live there, I'm ok with it. Otherwise, NO.

Biden may refer to Bojo as that Brexit fella.

He could have said that fella from Engadine McDonalds.

I want a nickname from a US President!

He forgot Scott Morrison real name. American lapdog. Obedient Pudle.

Senility.

Grandpa Biden at it again.🤣🤣 scomo auspol AUKUS Biden POTUS

R u journalists or gossip mongers who only knows nitpicking. ABC you denigrate the name.

Haaahaahaaha of cause yer;Why not.

So if Aus and the US have been shoulder to shoulder in armed conflict for 'literally more than a century' according to Joe, does that mean the first time was the boxer rebellion, Aussies were there. I think it may been the first outing of US as a truly global colonial power?

Stop it! Love Joe. 💕

Joe Biden, like most of Australia wishes to forget Scotty

Wear it with pride Scomo! 🇦🇺

He remembers Bravid Valour, I´ve been twittering economic perspectives to him and Obama on a weekly basis since 2009.

Covfefe

If scomo had accomplished anything worthwhile outside of ass kissing trump, everyone would remember his name

Eminently forgettable. I struggle to remember his first name is Scott. He seems such a buffoon, it somehow doesn't fit. Maybe no first name would.

The not important one lol 😂

East or west 'the fellow down under' is the best.

Priceless 😆😆😆😆😆😆

Haha

Joe has a long history of forgetting names .... e.g. he was Vice President under 'Barack America'. Other names he has mangled include the British PM, the Queen ...

It's a name we all wish to forget!

Don't blame old mate Biden, Morrison is extraordinarily forgettable

😅I also thought the UK PM left off the “son” 🤷‍♂️

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