President Joe Biden was overheard on a live microphone telling French President Emmanuel Macron that he would have to depart from an 80th-anniversary D-Day ceremony in Normandy, France, before the other attendees. This incident took place at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, which offers a view of Omaha Beach, the location of the D-Day landings that saw significant American casualties.

The cemetery is the final resting place for 9,388 Americans who lost their lives during D-Day and the subsequent Normandy campaign. Moreover, the Walls of the Missing at the site bear the names of 1,557 individuals.

As Biden entered the ceremony with Macron, the hot mic caught him saying, “My advance team said I gotta leave be the first one to leave because I hold people up.” The French leader didn’t respond but instead continued walking toward the event.

During the ceremony, Biden seemed to have the intention of taking a seat while being positioned alongside First Lady Jill Biden, Macron, and Brigitte Macron, the wife of the French president. However, his exact intentions remained unclear.


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