President Biden once again brought up the death of his son Beau while trying to console a grieving military family this week — this time parents of one of the three soldiers killed in a drone strike in Jordan this past weekend.

The 81-year-old commander-in-chief shoehorned mention of his family tragedy into a call to Shawn Sanders and Oneida Oliver-Sanders, which was recorded by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

During the Tuesday conversation, Biden said that Army Spc. Kennedy Sanders, 24, would be posthumously promoted to sergeant.

“Oh wow, that is the best news I’ve heard today, thank you so much,” Oliver-Sanders said as she and her husband began to cry. “You don’t know how much that means to us.”

“Oh, well, I tell you what, it means a lot to me,” Biden replied before adding: “My son spent a year in Iraq; that’s how I lost him.”

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