The teleprompter device went off during US President Joe Biden’s live-streamed speech at the Brookings Institution, a leading think tank in Washington, DC, where he criticized the import tax hike policy of President Donald Trump. The American leader drew attention to the situation, saying, “They just turned off my – I lost the electricity here,” and proceeded with the hard copy of his speech.
Biden suggested in his speech that American consumers would pay the price for the additional tariffs that Trump promised to impose on imports from Mexico, Canada and China, the U.S.’s three largest trading partners and said this approach is a “big mistake.”