WATCH: Biden Badly Botches Woman’s Name Just Hours After Meeting With Her

Following a meeting with the wife of Russia’s deceased opposition leader Alexey Navalny, President Joe Biden swung and missed on her first name during a follow-up briefing with reporters.

Yulia Navalny, who met with Biden in the wake of her husband’s death in a remote Russian prison, was referred to as “Yolanda” by the president, giving critics another round of ammunition in their quest to paint Biden as senile and unready to manage his responsibilities for another five years.

“I had the honor of meeting with Alexey Navalny’s wife and daughter. One thing that I made, was made clear to me is that Yolanda is gonna, she’s gonna continue to fight the [indecipherable] underway.”

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The trio met in San Francisco, not far from where daughter Dasha Navalnaya studies at Stanford University. President Biden traveled to California for several planned fundraisers later that day.

In a statement, the White House said Biden “expressed his admiration for Aleksey Navalny’s extraordinary courage and his legacy of fighting against corruption and for a free and democratic Russia in which the rule of law applies equally to everyone.”

Biden “emphasized that Aleksey’s legacy will carry on through people across Russia and around the world mourning his loss and fighting for freedom, democracy, and human rights,” according to CNN.

The meeting with Navalny’s family comes one day after the U.S. announced a new round of sanctions on Russia over his death. While a cause has not been released, Biden is laying the blame at the feet of President Vladimir Putin.

“The fact of the matter is: Putin is responsible, whether he ordered it or he is responsible for the circumstances he put that man in,” Biden told reporters on Monday. “And he’s – it’s a reflection of who he is. And it just cannot be tolerated.”

According to attendees at Biden’s fundraiser later that night, he referred to Putin as a “crazy SOB,” prompting the Kremlin to fire back that Biden is a “huge disgrace” to the United States.

In his meeting with the family, Biden “affirmed that his Administration will announce major new sanctions against Russia tomorrow in response to Aleksey’s death, Russia’s repression and aggression, and its brutal and illegal war in Ukraine,” the White House added.

The death of Navalny, announced Friday by Russia’s prison service, provoked international outrage and prompted a scattering of protests within Russia leading to severe crackdowns and arrests for public mourning.

For years, Navalny lived as a thorn in Putin’s side, traveling the country and briefly running for president on an anti-corruption message before he was disqualified by state-run courts. He survived a poisoning in 2020, flying to Germany for treatment only to return to Russia the following year. He was serving a 19-year sentence for fomenting domestic extremist activities at the time of his death.