Biden forgets Martin Luther King III’s wife’s name while singing Happy Birthday to her

President Joe Biden, 80, made an embarrassing misstep when he forgot the name of Martin Luther King III’s wife while initiating a group singing of the Happy Birthday song during an event honoring the late civil rights leader.

Arndrea Waters King’s birthday is January 16, which fell on Martin Luther King Jr. Day this year.

During Biden’s remarks at the National Action Network’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day breakfast on Monday, he paused to encourage everyone to sing Happy Birthday to Waters King. The strange speech also included a moment where the president called Republicans ‘fiscally demented.’ 

‘Well look, my wife has a rule in our family – When it’s somebody’s birthday you sing Happy Birthday,’ the president said of first lady Jill Biden.

President Joe Biden forgot the name of Martin Luther King III’s wife Arndrea Waters King during a singing of the Happy Birthday song on Monday

But when the time came for Biden to place Waters King’s first name into the verse, Biden instead mumbled.

It appears that he started to say the name Valerie instead of Arndrea.

There was general laughter amongst the crowd as the president loudly mumbled the incorrect, incoherent name over the microphone at The Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C.

The president concluded the latest gaffe with a futile: ‘Well.’

Arndrea has been married to King III since 2006. The two have one daughter, Yolanda Renee King. 

Arndrea Waters King married Martin Luther King III in 2006 and they have one daughter together. Waters King’s birthday is on January 16, which fell on Martin Luther King Jr. Day this year

Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., a senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church, introduced President Joe Biden on Sunday during a service honoring Martin Luther King Jr.

On Sunday he traveled to Atlanta, Georgia and became the first-ever sitting president to deliver sermon remarks at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, which was once led by the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr from 1960 until his assassination in 1968.

The president attacked Republicans during his Monday speech for being ‘fiscally demented’ as he touted a reduction in the federal deficit of $1 trillion.

‘Hear me, that’s a fact,’ Biden said to scattered claps. ‘And there’s going to be hundreds of billions reduced over the next decade.’

He then went into a slurred and muttered remark against the GOP, saying: ‘But so what, these guys – well, they’re fiscally demented, I think.’

Republicans have repeatedly questioned Biden’s physical and mental fitness for office.

Biden’s use of the word ‘demented’ on Monday comes as a surprise considering the GOP’s weaponization of the word over the last several years claiming that the president has some early sign of dementia.