Joe Biden stumbled over his words in a recent speech

Social media users and some conservative commentators have recently shared posts that claim President Joe Biden used an offensive and derogatory slur.

In the title of a Facebook video, a pair of conservative commentators known as the Hodgetwins assert Biden said a racial slur. A YouTube video that draws on the same clip of Biden speaking says the same in its headline.

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The video footage of Biden in the posts is authentic, from a Feb. 19 address Biden gave at a virtual meeting of the Munich Security Conference. During the speech, Biden, who has a stutter, stumbled over the words "I’m eager to hear." The third time he said eager, it sounded like he put an "n" at the front of "eager."

This is what the posts are referring to as a racial slur.

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You can hear it at the 16:32 mark in this C-SPAN video, when Biden said: "Look, the range of challenges Europe and the United States must take on together is broad and complex. And I’m eager to hear, I’m eager to hear, I’m eager to hear next, from my good friends and outstanding leaders, Chancellor Merkel, about her thoughts on the way forward."

A transcript of Biden’s remarks published by the White House reflects this: "And I’m eager to hear — I’m eager to hear — I’m eager to hear next from…" 

About 2 minutes and 55 seconds into their video about the stumble, one of the Hodgetwins acknowledged that Biden was not trying to say a racial slur: "Hey, Joe, you can at least apologize, man. I mean I know you didn’t intentionally say it but how do you get confused with the word eager...?"

But for social media users clicking through their feeds and seeing headlines that say the president said a racial slur, that context is missing. 

Biden, who has a speech disorder, stumbled over the words "I’m eager." 

We rate the claim that he said a racial slur False.