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US President Joe Biden suffered yet another embarrassing gaffe when he read aloud the instructions written on the teleprompter during his speech at a trade union conference in Washington on Wednesday.

Biden, reading off a teleprompter, appeared to incorporate script instructions in the middle of his speech, resulting in an awkward applause line.

“I see an America where we defend democracy, not diminish it. I see an America where we protect freedoms, not take them away,” Biden said. “I see an economy that grows a lot in the bottom up where the wealthy pay their fair share, so we can have child care, paid leave and so much more, and still reduce the federal deficit and increase economic folks.

“Imagine what we could do next? Four more years, pause,” he said before laughing.

Members of North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) stepped in and chanted “four more years” in response to the President’s botched cue.

The 81-year-old Biden’s teleprompter mix-up is only the latest in the President’s long list of gaffes. Just on Tuesday, Biden, while speaking at a Florida campaign rally, mistakenly said he and his party “can’t be trusted.”

While criticising his predecessor and Republican rival Donald Trump’s abortion stance, he flipped the tables on himself.

“I don’t know why we’re surprised by Trump. How many times does he have to prove we can’t be trusted?” Biden said.

On April 18, during a one-on-one interview with Nexstar Media’s Reshad Hudson, President Biden mixed up the Israeli port city of Haifa with that of southern Gaza’s Rafah city.

In another gaffe in March, Biden said “we have the lowest inflation rates of any country in America” while speaking about his administration’s efforts to tackle inflation in the US.