President Joe Biden attacked climate deniers as “lying, dog-faced pony soldiers” as he mumbled about an alleged scene from a John Wayne movie.

His speech at the Group of 20 leaders’ summit during a press conference in Hanoi on Sunday threw off many social media users. AFP White House Correspondent Aurelia End questioned the POTUS about people’s opinions on fossil fuels at the summit and the lack of consensus surrounding the same.

After Biden rambled for minutes, he picked the reference of actor John Wayne to launch an attack on climate change critics. 

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“My brother was having famous lines from these movies that he always quotes, you know, and one of them is there’s a movie about John Wayne as an Indian scout, and they’re trying to get I think it was the patch and one of the great tribes of America back on the reservation, and he’s standing with a union, so he’s… they’re all on their… they’re on their horses and their saddles and there’s three or four Indians and headdresses and the Union soldiers are basically saying to the Indians, ‘Come with me, we’ll take care of you. We’ll — everything will be good,’” Biden said.

Biden continued, “And the Indian scout, the Indian looks at John Wayne and points to the Union soldier and says, ‘He’s a lying, dog-faced pony soldier.’ Well, there’s a lot of lying, dog-faced pony soldiers out there about — about global warming, but not anymore. All of a sudden, they’re all realizing it’s a problem. And there’s nothing like seeing the light.”

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He was trolled online as most of the people who followed Biden’s speech were unable to pick up on reference that the president was alluding to.

“Pretty sure no one has ever tracked down the movie he thinks he’s referencing here,” conservative media personality ALX wrote. New York Post columnist Miranda Devine tweeted, “Nobody can have any idea what he’s mumbling about. Why doesn’t he use the normal fixed microphone like everyone else?” “Um… On top of not making sense… Isn’t this borderline racist?” National Review contributor Pradheep Shanker remarked.