Rarely is a day when President Biden doesn’t lie or screw up a sentence, but even by his standards, this week has been a mess — rambling on Vietnam, confusing his position around 9/11, claiming he’s teaching Ivy Leaguers political theory , and many more.
The horror show began in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Sunday when the 80-year-old commander-in-chief began a press conference by forgetting that the Robin Williams classic was, you know, a movie.
“One of my colleagues said, ‘Remember the famous song ‘Good Morning Vietnam’? Well, good evening, Vietnam,’” Biden said, before going on to talk about John Wayne as he discussed climate change, a key topic at the G20 summit the president attended in India.
“And the Indian looked at John Wayne and pointed at the Union soldier and said, ‘He’s a lying, dog-faced pony soldier,'” Biden said, recycling one of his favorite lines from the campaign trail. “Well, there are a lot of lying, dog-faced horse soldiers out there about global warming. But not anymore.”
Biden later appeared confused about the number of questions he was scheduled to take from reporters in Hanoi.
Joe Biden suffered another string of missteps this week in Vietnam, Alaska and Maryland. Reuters
“Staff, is there anyone I haven’t spoken to?” he asked before snapping at a persistent reporter: “I didn’t call you! I called — it said I had five questions!”
The whole sordid affair was called off by press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre after just 26 minutes, with Biden sealing the deal by telling the global audience: “I tell you what, I don’t know about you, but I’m going to bed.”
On Monday, Biden spoke at a 9/11 memorial in Alaska, where he falsely claimed he was at Ground Zero the day after the terrorist attacks in Lower Manhattan.
Wrapping up his tour of Asia, Biden met with Vietnamese President Vo Van Thuong before giving a speech in which he mistook a Robin Williams anti-war film for a song. AP
“And I remember standing there the next day and looking at the building,” he said. “I feel like I’m looking through the gates of hell, it looks so broken because of the way you can – from where you can stand.”
The President, however, was not there on September 12, but on September 20. In his own memoir, “Promise to Keep,” Biden revealed that the day after 9/11, he was actually in Washington presiding over business on the Senate floor.
After a quiet Wednesday, Biden resumed his rampage on Thursday, lying to Maryland students and rabbis.
Biden spent this year’s 9/11 ceremony in Alaska, where he claimed to be at Ground Zero the day after the terrorist attack. AFP via Getty Images
The President began his day by recalling during a speech at Prince George’s Community College that “I taught at the University of Pennsylvania for four years and I used to teach political theory. And people, you always hear, every generation has to fight for democracy.”
One problem: Biden never actually taught a single course at Penn and made only nine reported visits to the Philadelphia campus despite raking in nearly $1 million from the university between 2017 and 2019.
The problems at the school didn’t end there, as Biden suggested that African American and Hispanic workers don’t have “high school diplomas” before an official White House transcript tried to clear up his words.
Biden, 80, said, “I taught at the University of Pennsylvania for four years and I used to teach political theory. And friends, you always hear, every generation has to fight for democracy.” aoldman
“We’ve seen record low unemployment especially — and I’ve focused my entire career — especially for African American and Hispanic workers and veterans, you know, workers without a high school diploma,” the president said in televised remarks.
However, according to the official transcript, Biden should have included the word “and” to separate African Americans, Hispanic workers and veterans from those without a high school diploma.
Later in the evening, the president held a call ahead of this weekend’s celebration of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, where he again waived permission to appease the rabbis.
Biden also inadvertently suggested black and Hispanic workers do not have “high school diplomas” during his speech in Maryland. Getty Images
“I was, so to speak, raised in the synagogue of my state. You think I’m kidding, I’m not,” claimed Biden, America’s second Roman Catholic president.
The 80-year-old called the Beth Shalom congregation in Wilmington, Del., “a home for me with many friends.”
Biden’s memoir, however, lacks any details about the relationship, with the latest claim sounding suspiciously like his claim from last year that he was practically “raised in the Puerto Rican community at home.”
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