President Biden appears to be making up big new numbers as he tries to brag about his administration’s massive infrastructure spending — a brainstorm that the White House tries to downplay in its official transcript.
“In my view, instead of Infrastructure Week, America has an Infrastructure Decade,” the president told a crowd of union members in Las Vegas on Friday, in a speech touting federally funded rail projects.
“Over one billion three hundred million trillion three hundred million dollars!” Biden exclaimed. “Trump just talked the talk, we walked the walk.”
The jab was meant as a swipe at Biden’s predecessor, former president Donald Trump, who did not pass such a spending bill through Congress while in office — but it drew mockery online.
“Why does the President of the United States sound like my 4-year-old son when he’s trying to come up with the highest number?” wondered Biden critic Oren Ross on X.
Biden spoke to Las Vegas union members in a speech touting new federal spending on rail projects. Reuters
The president boasts of “over one billion three hundred million trillion three hundred million dollars” in federal spending. AP
On Saturday, nearly 18 hours later, the White House press office released a transcript explaining the error by stating it numerically, as “over 1,300,000,000 – $1,000,300,000,000” – implying that the president just missed a few zeros on his teleprompter, rather than dabbling in some new form of budget math .
The verbal stumble was the latest in a long line of Biden missteps that have contributed to widespread voter concern about the 81-year-old president’s mental acuity and fitness for office.
In the same speech, Biden shared for at least the 13th time since taking office a debunked story involving a late Amtrak conductor who allegedly shouted “Joey, honey!” while praising Biden’s lifelong train passenger.
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