12 Times Joe Biden Completely Made Up Stories, Lied, Or Said Something Crazy
Lots of politicians are big, fat liars. Joe Biden is merely one of the most obvious.
1. Joe Bidenās Made-Up Amtrak Story
At a 50th-anniversary event for Amtrak in Philadelphia, Biden said that when he was vice president, a train conductor congratulated him for traveling 1.5 million miles on Amtrak. A Fox News report out on May 5, however, pokes holes in the presidentās account.
Biden continued, telling the audience Negri estimated Biden had traveled 1.5 million miles on Amtrak trains around his fourth or fifth year as vice president, which would have been in 2013 or 2014.
āMy mom was sick, and I used to try to come home almost every weekend as vice president to see her,ā Biden said. āI got on the train and Angelo Negri came up and he goes, āJoey, baby,ā and he grabbed my cheek like he always did. ā¦ He said, āJoey, whatās the big deal? One-point-three million miles on Air Force Two? Do you know how many miles you traveled on Amtrak?ā I said, āNo, Angie, I donāt know.ā He gave me the calculation and he said āYou traveled 1.5 million miles on Amtrak.;ā
As Fox News pointed out, however, an obituary for Negri says the conductor retired in 1993, decades before Bidenās supposed story took place, while he was still a senator from Delaware. Bidenās mother died in 2010.
2. Falsely Claimed U.S. Government Experimented On Tuskegee Airmen
While speaking at a North Carolina event on COVID-19 vaccination efforts, Biden falsely claimed that vaccine hesitancy among black Americans stemmed from past experimentation by the U.S. government on the Tuskegee Airmen.
āThe reason why itās been harder to get African Americans, initially, to get vaccinated because they are used to being experimented on ā the Tuskegee Airmen and others,ā Biden said.
The Tuskegee Airmen were the first group of African-American fighter pilots who served in the Army Air Corps throughout World War II. The Airmen were not connected to the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, wherein more than 600 black men wereĀ experimented onĀ by the U.S. government to āobserve the progression of a number of diseases, particularly syphilis, untreated in black males.ā Biden also made the sameĀ false claimĀ in May 2021 during an interview with YouTuber Jackie Aina.
3. Claimed He Was All-Star Player At Baseball Game Where He Went 0-2
Biden told a story about how he hit a ball 358 feet at his second congressional baseball game while hosting the Los Angeles Dodgers at the White House on July 2. The only problem: Biden, a freshman senator from Delaware at the time in 1974, went 0-2 at the game.
āBiden was decked out in Phillies home pinstripes last night as he went 0-for-2 (groundout, strikeout) in the Democratsā 7-3 loss to the Republicans in the national annual congressional baseball game at Memorial Stadium,ā read local coverage of the event.
4. Biden Said He Was A Professor After the Obama Administration, But He Never Taught a Class
Biden claimed he was a professor in between his time as Obamaās vice president and his current tenure in the White House.
While Biden was named an honorary professor and led the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, the Democrat never taught a class during those four years.
5. Confused Biden Said He āUsed to Drive an 18-Wheelerā
During a visit to the Mack Truck facility in Pennsylvania, Biden claimed he āused to drive an 18-wheeler.ā
āI got to,ā Biden said.
While newspaper records indicate Biden rode in a cargo truck for hundreds of miles to āobserve truckersā woes,ā there is no evidence that he ever operated a truck himself.
6. Falsely Claimed He Visited Pittsburgh Synagogue After 2018 Mass Murder
Speaking before a group of Jewish leaders, Biden claimed he visited the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh following the 2018 antisemitic attack on the worship site that left 11 people dead.
āI remember spending time at the, you know, uh, going to, uh, the, you know, the Tree of Life synagogue, speaking with them,ā he said.
The presidentās claim was quickly deemed false, however, with Tree of Life Executive Director Barb Feige saying Biden never visited the synagogue following the horrific 2018 attack.
āBarb Feige, executive director of the Tree of Life, said that Biden did not visit the synagogue in the nearly three years since the anti-Semitic attack,ā the New York PostĀ reported. āIn a phone interview, Feige, executive director since July 2019, said firmly that āno,ā Biden didnāt visit, even before taking office when he had a lower public profile as a former vice president and then-Democratic presidential candidate.ā
7. Biden Repeated False Claim That He Used to Drive A Tractor-Trailer
While touting the passage of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act in Minnesota, Biden repeated the debunked claim that he previously drove a tractor-trailer.
āI used to drive a tractor-trailer,ā the president said during an event at Dakota County Technical College.
The statement from Biden is one of several instances of the president falsely claiming that he drove such a vehicle. While speaking at an event in Pennsylvania over the summer, the president proclaimed he had previously driven āan 18-wheeler.ā When pressed byĀ Fox News for evidence of such an instance occurring, a White House official pointed to a āDecember 1973 article fromĀ the Wilmington Evening Journal that showed Biden rode in an 18-wheeler on a 536-mile haul to Ohio.ā
8. Biden Made Up Story About 1967 Visit To Israel
At the Dec. 1 White House menorah lighting in celebration of Hanukkah, Biden made up a story about a 1967 visit to Israel during the Six-Day War.
āI have known every ā every prime minister well since Golda Meir, including Golda Meir,ā Biden said in the East Room. āAnd during the Six-Day War, I had an opportunity to ā she invited me to come over because I was going to be the liaison between, she and the Egyptians about the Suez, and so on and so forth.ā
Yet Meir was not elected prime minister untilĀ 1969, two years after the Six-Day War. The Israeli prime minister in 1967 was Levi Eshkol, whoĀ servedĀ between 1963-1969.
9. Biden Couldnāt Remember His Secretary of Defense
Biden appeared to forget who his secretary of defense was during a White House event promoting two female generals on International Womenās Day, March 8.
āI want to thank the former general. I keep calling him general, but myā¦ the guy who runs that outfit over there,ā Biden said.
10. Joe Biden Confused Titles Of World Leaders
Biden confused the titles of South Korean President Moon Jae-in on May 21, 2021, a day after the U.S. president referred to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as āPresident Netanyahu.ā
Biden called the South Korean president āprime ministerā while presenting a Medal of Honor to a 94-year-old Korean War veteran.
āThe people in the Republic of Korea havenāt forgotten, as evidenced by the fact that the prime minister of Korea is here for this ceremony,ā Biden said,Ā accordingĀ to the New York Post.
Biden confused Netanyahuās title the day before in remarks celebrating the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
11. Biden Mistakes Libya For Syria At G7 Summit
Biden mixed up Syria for Libya three times at the G7 Summit in England during June 13 remarks on Russian aggression in the Middle East.
āIn Libya, we should be opening up the passes to be able to go through and provide, provide food assistance and economic assistā I mean, vital assistance to a population thatās in real trouble,ā Biden said, going on to charge Russia with violations of international norms in Syria, and then again wrongly referencing Libya.
āAs long as theyāre there without the ability to bring about some order in the region, you canāt do that very well without providing for the basic economic needs of people,ā Biden said. āSo Iām hopeful that we can find an accommodation where we can save the lives of people in, for example, in Libya.ā
12. Biden Gets Corrected At G7 Summit After Insisting On Introduction Of South Africa President
Biden was corrected by U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the G7 Summit in England on June 13 when Biden interrupted the host leader to demand he introduce the president of South Africa, who had just been introduced.
āAnd the president of South Africa,ā Biden cut into Johnsonās roundtable remarks.
āAnd the president of South Africa, as I said earlier on,ā Johnson dismissed.
āOh, you did,ā a frail Biden said at the table while others laughed.
āI did, I certainly did,ā Johnson finished.