I’m convinced that someone told Joe Biden once upon a time that the way to give good speeches is to try to relate to your audience. That’s certainly true. But it doesn’t mean just to make things up that never happened to make you sound more like your audience. So we’ve heard all kinds of false stories from Biden over the years, from his false stories about him being a truck driver while talking to truckers to imaginary meetings with an Amtrak conductor, while speaking at an Amtrak ceremony.
Joe Biden attended the U.S. The Naval Academy hosted Joe Biden on Friday as he addressed the 2022 graduating class. But what was he doing? If you guessed that he claimed that he received an appointment to the Naval Academy — congratulations, you win.
Here’s what Biden said:
Before I begin my speech, a thought crossed my mind as I was told the Class of ‘72 is here. In 1965, a Senator appointed me to the Academy. I had been running in 1972 against him. (Laughter.) I never imagined it this way. I wasn’t old enough to be sworn in. At the time I started running, I was only 29. J. Caleb Boggs was his name.
I didn’t come to the Academy because I wanted to be a football star. There was a Staubach man and Bellino there. Therefore, I decided to go to Delaware.
It is absurd. This is nonsense. GraduationFrom the University of Delaware, 1965. No, he wouldn’t have been getting an appointment to the Academy at that point. So, he didn’t decide against the Academy because he wanted to go to Delaware — he was already going to Delaware.
He continued:
“But all kidding aside,” Biden continued on Friday, “the best line of the debate was after it’s all over, the announcer, the questioner — who was a good guy, but supported my opponent, who was a good man as well, I might add — and he said, ‘Sen. Boggs, is there anything else you want to say?’ And he said, ‘Yes, just one thing.’ And he took the microphone. He said, ‘You know, Joe, if you accepted my commission to the — my appointment to the academy,’ he said, ‘you’d still have one year and three months’ active duty and I’d have no problems right now.’”
It’s unclear if Biden has told the story before, but it surprised political journalists who have covered his many campaigns and his presidency. Biden’s 2008 autobiography “Promises to Keep” does not mention the Naval Academy.
Translation? It didn’t happen and he’s likely inventing out of whole cloth a conversation with Boggs–that he’s now representing as true–to members of our military.
In fact, Joe Biden got five student deferments in the ’60s, while he was in college and in law school. He reportedly was deemed “unfit” for service in 1968 because of asthma, despite playing football and being a lifeguard.
Biden also misrepresented how often he had served in Afghanistan and Iraq, and claimed that his son was killed in action.
I mean it — you really are. I’ve been in and out of Iraq and Afghanistan over 40 — I think 38 times. My son, who spent one year in Iraq, was awarded the Bronze Star, Conspicuous Services Medal. I lost him.
That’s incredibly wrong to imply, especially when you’re talking to young military graduates.
The Washington Post has called out this lie in the past and said Biden’s own campaign clarified back in 2019 that the correct number of visits is 21.
Biden also did that weird whispering thing again saying, “I’m your commander-in-chief.”
Biden Whispers to Naval Academy Graduates: ‘I Am Your Commander-in-Chief’
Biden: “You’ve all got so much to be proud of. That’s what you really have. By the way, once you’re commissioned, remember, (whispers) I’m your commander-in-chief. So don’t ask me too tough a question, okay?” pic.twitter.com/baXbeoS6Ee
— UngaTheGreat (@UngaTheGreat) May 27, 2022
Unfortunately that sound more like a warning than something that encourages confidence when you graduate.
Biden said that he also got North Korea into agreeing to the sanctions against Russia.
For the first time — if I can hesitate for a second here — did anybody think, when I called for sanctions against Russia, that in addition to NATO, that Australia, Japan,
North[South]Korea is one of the ASEAN member countries that would be supportive.
He meant South Korea. Joe, it’s not the same thing.
Biden also was trying to say “Finlandize” (meaning: taking a more neutral position) but instead, he said “Fingalize.” “The actions taken by Putin were an attempt to — to use my phrase — to Fingalize all of Europe, make it all neutral,” Biden said. “Instead, he NATO-ized all of Europe.”
He then performed more mask theatre. While he wore his mask to walk up to the stage, he took it off when he got to his seat–among all the people wearing their masks.
Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, Annapolis, is where President Biden attended the Naval Academy Graduation. pic.twitter.com/6eeePvw6Yw
— Lucas Tomlinson (@LucasFoxNews) May 27, 2022
What can you do when a man such as this is in such a powerful position and has no conception of reality?
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