Biden Mistakenly Addresses Rep. Walorski Who Died at Hunger Event: “Jackie, Are you here?”

There goes confused and bumbling President Joe Biden again!

While Biden delivered the opening remarks at the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health Wednesday morning, he mistakenly called out for the already deceased Rep. Jackie Walorski, who co-sponsored a bill to fund the conference before her death.

“Jackie, are you here? Where’s Jackie?” he asked, looking out into the audience of approximately 500 people. “She was going to be here.”

Many were flustered and taken aback by Biden’s lack of cough and respect for the deceased congresswoman. Apparently, President Joe Biden’s lack of what’s actually going on around him, knows no bounds.

Walorski, the 58-year-old Republican congresswoman from Indiana, died in her home state on Aug. 3 in a two-car crash near Nappanee, about 30 miles southeast of South Bend.

Walorski’s communications director, 28-year-old Emma Thomson, and St. Joseph County Republican Party Chair Zachery Potts, 27, also died in the head-on collision, as did the driver of the other vehicle.

Shortly after Walorski’s passing, the White House flew flags at half-staff in her memory, and the president and first lady Jill Biden issued a statement on her passing.

“I appreciated her partnership as we plan for a historic White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health this fall that will be marked by her deep care for the needs of rural America,” the August statement said.

It continued: “We send our deepest condolences to her husband, Dean, to the families of her staff members, Zachery Potts and Emma Thomson, who lost their lives in public service, and to the people of Indiana’s Second District who lost a representative who was one of their own.”

The longtime congresswoman was an integral part of the legislation that led to the funding of the meeting, which also drew approximately 1,000 virtual attendees.

Walorski, along with Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.), introduced a bipartisan, bicameral bill last October that made possible Wednesday’s second national White House conference on food, nutrition, hunger and health.