According to Google Trends, Vice President Kamala Harris saw a spike in media attention earlier this year. After all, Harris is standing first in line to succeed the 80-year-old President Joe Biden, now officially running for re-election.
But, amid all this attention, Harris is embarassing herself in front of U.S. allies, with her word salads and her factual errors and her stale pop culture references.
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For example, Harris tried talking about the Korean-language series Squid Game in front of South Korean President President Yoon Suk Yeol.
“I think of the actress Youn Yuh-jung, who I met in Seoul last year when I convened groundbreaking South Korean women. She is the first Korean to win an Academy Award for acting. These are examples of the cultural ties and the intertwined history between our nations,” Harris said at a State Department luncheon Thursday.
“I also think of the Emmy award-winning TV shows like ‘Squid Games,’ which I will confess Doug and I binge-watched at home over a series of weeks.”
First of all, the series is called Squid Game, singular.
Second of all, the series premiered less than two years ago. It’s too new to be considered an example of “intertwined history,” and it’s too old to be considered a “cultural tie.” On Google this month, Squid Game has been generating only 1 percent as many weekly searches as it did during October 2021.
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Conservative pundits have long described the vice president’s speeches as “cringeworthy.” This latest speech was no exception.
Cringe AF: Kamala Tells the S. Korean Pres. That ‘Squid Games’ Is an Example ‘of the Cultural Ties and the Intertwined History Between’ S. Korea and the U.S. pic.twitter.com/ZEE4YJxG5J
— Paul Prosise (@PaulProsise) April 27, 2023
Harris has done this before. In September, she began a speech by confusing North Korea with South Korea.
“So, the United States shares a very important relationship, which is an alliance with the Republic of North Korea,” Harris said last year.
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Plus, the vice president is still making her usual word salads.
Take a look —
On this episode of “Wise” Words with Kamala Harris:
“I think it's very important…for us, at every moment in time and certainly this one, to see the moment in time in which we exist and are present.”
— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) April 26, 2023
KAMALA HARRIS: "The United States shares a very important relationship, which is an alliance with the Republic of North Korea." pic.twitter.com/H2dI5UYOlo
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 29, 2022
Tuesday, Yoon and his wife, Kim Keon Hee, made an evening visit to the Korean War Memorial with President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden. They participated in a wreath-laying ceremony next to the memorial’s Pool of Remembrance.
Among other things, the Bidens presented their South Korean counterparts with a small handcrafted mahogany table inlaid with historical White House wood. It was topped with a vase filled with handmade paper hibiscuses and roses.
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The visit comes just weeks after scores of highly classified documents were leaked that have complicated relations with allies, including South Korea. The papers viewed by The Associated Press indicate that South Korea’s National Security Council “grappled” with the U.S. in early March over an American request to provide artillery ammunition to Ukraine.
The documents, which cited a signals intelligence report, said then-NSC Director Kim Sung-han suggested the possibility of selling the 330,000 rounds of 155 mm munitions to Poland, since getting the ammunition to Ukraine quickly was the United States’ ultimate goal.
White House officials said that the leak wouldn’t cause lingering tensions but also declined say if the two leaders would discuss South Korea supplying Ukraine with the much-need ammunition.
“We have said many times we are engaging more broadly with our allies and partners that help at high levels to reassure them of our commitment to safeguarding intelligence and, and fidelity to our security, securing partnerships,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said. She added that the U.S. commitment to South Korea is “ironclad.”
The Associated Press and The Horn editorial team contributed to this article.