Biden butchers line from Lincoln’s inaugural address after saying ‘I want to make sure I get this quote exactly right’

President Biden butchered one of Abraham Lincoln’s most famous lines while speaking to the nation’s governors over the weekend — after saying “I want to make sure I get this quote exactly right.”

The 81-year-old president read from a notecard at the Governor’s Ball Dinner on Saturday, which apparently contained a quotation from Lincoln’s inaugural address.

“Standing here in front of this portrait of the man behind me, I want to make sure I get this quote exactly right,” Biden began, standing in front of a painting of the 16th president.

“He said, ‘We — the better angels,” he said, ‘We must address the counsel — and adjust to the better angels of our nature.’”

“And we do the — and we do well to remember what else he said. He said, ‘We’re not enemies, but friends.’

“This is in the middle of — this is in the — in the part of the Civil War,” Biden continued.

“He said: ‘We’re not enemies, but [we’re] friends, we must not be enemies.”

It appears Biden was trying to quote from Lincoln’s first inaugural address in March 1861, in which he famously said: “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies.

“Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection,” Lincoln told the divided nation.

“The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to everly living heart and healthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched — as surely they will be — by the better angels of our nature.”

Lincoln gave that speech in March 1861 — more than one month before Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter, officially starting the Civil War — and not in the middle of the war, as Biden suggested.

Following his latest gaffe on Saturday, the president made a joke about his age — but made no reference to the apparent blunder.

“Folks — and I’ve been around,” Biden told the nation’s governors.

“I know I don’t look it. I’ve been around a long while, though,” he joked.

“And I mean this sincerely, we’ve gotten — politics has gotten too bitter — Democrats and Republicans.

“Politics has gotten too personally [sic], and it just is – it’s just not like it was,” he said.

Biden’s latest gaffe comes as some within the Democratic Party express concerns over his use of notecards to talk to supporters at private fundraisers.

Some donors were even said to have come away from fundraisers alarmed that Biden appears to cling to written notes to speak on matters of policy he should be intimately familiar with.