White House, Biden campaign respond to backlash over use of term 'illegal' during SOTU speech

By now, President Joe Biden and the Democrats know he stepped in it big time when he used the term "illegal" to refer to the alleged killer of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley during Thursday's State of the Union speech.

Of course, they can't explain the real reason for his gaffe, which is that he's a senile old man who gets easily confused.

Instead, they blamed it on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) heckling or tried to minimize it as a "small" mistake.

When a reporter asked Biden about the term, he said, "Well, I probably shouldn't -- I don't re-- technically he's not supposed to be here."

And Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said he should have said "undocumented" but that it wasn't a big deal. After all, Biden lost a child too, so he knows how they feel, right? Not hardly when it was largely his fault that Riley's killer was still in the country.

Of course, mainstream news sources largely ignored or finessed the fact that Biden called her "Lincoln" Riley, which must have come across as a huge slap in the face to her parents even though they declined a White House invite to attend the address.