Paging Dr. Freud, you’re needed in the West Wing.

President Joe Biden spent the last couple of days visiting his ol’ comrade and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Friday afternoon, the leader of the free world went to thank his host country for their new commitment to accept 150,000 individuals from Latin America.

Only, it didn’t come out the way he planned —and as Freudian slips go, it was a big one.

“Today, I applaud China for stepping up,” Biden said before Parliament. “Excuse me, I applaud Canada.”

Unfortunately, the error caused his audience to laugh in his face.

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Considering the Biden family’s mysterious financial connections to the Chinese Communist Party, this administration’s feckless diplomacy toward the country, and even White House climate czar John Kerry’s dogged determination to make China his bestie, it is easy to see how — and why — Biden would want to thank China for whatever it was Biden was thinking about.

As for Trudeau, he doesn’t have much ground to stand on when it comes to standing up to China.

Readers might remember that last fall, CCP leader Xi Jinping essentially dog-walked the Canadian leader at the G20 Summit.

In one video, Trudeau could be seen sheepishly standing there as a stone-faced Xi dressed him down for their conversation leaking to the press.

“Everything we discussed has been leaked to the papers and that is not appropriate,” he said according to a translator.

Trudeau responded, “… in Canada we believe in free and open and frank dialogue and that is what we will continue to have.”

“We will continue to look to work constructively together but there will be things we disagree on, and you will have to …” he added before Xi cut him off and didn’t let him finish his thought.

The mere text of the exchange doesn’t do it justice. It must be seen to be believed:

As for Biden, the verbal miscue is the latest in a long line of public displays that have the whole world laughing: First, it was the Saudis, then the Australians, and now the Canadians.

Can it get any worse than this, eh?

The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) entered the debate about a nationwide ban on Chinese-owned social media app TikTok.

The Democratic Socialist and member of the left-wing “Squad” took to TikTok on Saturday morning to push back against bipartisan support for a nationwide ban on the app. AOC minimized concerns about security and data privacy, saying that TikTok was just one app that harvests massive troves of data. Instead of banning a single app, she called for a broader data privacy law.

“Do I believe TikTok should be banned? No,” AOC opened. The video is her first post on the app, despite having created the account more than a year ago.

“First of all, I think it’s important to discuss how unprecedented of a move this would be,” she said. “The United States has never before banned a social media company from existence, from operating in our borders and this is an app that has over 150 million Americans on it,”

Ocasio-Cortez first discussed criticisms that the app is a vessel for Chinese surveillance, and that it steals user data. She minimized those concerns, saying that banning TikTok “doesn’t really address the core of the issue, which is the fact that major social media companies are allowed to collect troves of deeply personal data about you that you don’t know about, without really any significant regulation whatsoever.”

“In fact, the United States is one of the only developed nations in the world that has no significant data or privacy protection laws on the books,” she said. Instead of banning TikTok, which has 150 million users, outright, the answer is to “actually protect Americans from this kind of egregious data harvesting that companies can do without your significant ability to say no,” she added.

Ocasio-Cortez also criticized the national security concerns about the app. When Congress is considering legislation that has national security implications, they are given a classified briefing; Congress has not received a classified briefing. “Why would we be proposing a ban regarding such a significant issue without being clued in on this at all?” she asked. “It just doesn’t feel right to me.” She also said that Congress needs to make its case for banning TikTok to the public.

“But frankly, I think a lot of this is putting the cart before the horse,” she concluded. “Our first priority should be in protecting your ability to exist without social media companies harvesting and commodifying every single piece of data about you without you and without your consent.”

As of the publishing of this article, the video has garnered more than 2.3 million views.

AOC is not the first member of the Democratic Party to oppose a ban on TikTok. Her “Squad” colleague Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), posted a video on the app Thursday lobbying against a ban. “TikTok as a platform has created a community and a space for free speech for 150 million Americans and counting,” Bowman said in the video. “It is also a place where 5 million small businesses are selling their products and services and making a living.”

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) and Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) also defended TikTok this week.