Tuesday was a weird, busy day for President Joe Biden. After nearly flubbing Emmett Till's name while giving remarks for a national monument proclamation, the president addressed mental health at another event. It was there when his remarks raised eyebrows, as he made quite some remarkable claims about supposedly ending cancer.
"'If you could do anything at all, Joe, what would you do?' I said, 'I’d cure cancer.' And they looked at me like, 'Why cancer?' Because no one thinks we can. That’s why. And we can. We ended cancer as we know it," the president mumbled, very much sounding and looking like the oldest president we've ever had.
Biden claims that he "ended cancer as we know it." pic.twitter.com/sHMIIPsSP5
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 25, 2023
What's even more noteworthy is that the White House transcript does not reflect Biden saying as much, not even with a correction. According to the official transcript, the president said "we can end cancer as we know it," though that's clearly not what others heard.
Even more curious about the attention being paid to the president’s remarks on ending cancer is that this is not what the WH transcript reflects him as saying, not even with a strike through of what he meant. The transcript claims he said “we can end cancer as we know it.” https://t.co/xaiuKrGx1c pic.twitter.com/6PKNhVc1eQ
— Rebecca Downs (@RebeccaRoseGold) July 25, 2023
The remarks were part of Biden's discussion on "the Unity Agenda," which he claimed "is made up of four big things to — that we’re going to do together as a nation." The four points were all to do with health and included addressing cancer, veterans care, the opioid epidemic, and mental health. It's nevertheless ironic that the president would be talking about "unity" and what "we're going to do together as a nation" in some of our most partisan and most polarized days as a country, with he and his party helping stoke divisions.
"Cancer" is currently trending on Twitter in response to the president's wild claims, with our friends at Twitchy highlighting some of the best responses. Many called on fact-checkers to weigh in.
Should be an easy one for you @ddale8 @GlennKesslerWP @PolitiFact https://t.co/JUM1kPH8Dh
— DogDad72 (@BillsMafiaTPA) July 25, 2023
@ddale8 @GlennKesslerWP we’re waiting on you guys to jump in ANY day!
— CYNDI 💌 (@CYNDI_ROSE__) July 25, 2023
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Former Congressional candidate and consultant Christian Collins included such a claim when tweeting out a whole host of other issues Biden has lied about.
Biden cured cancer in the same way that he marched for civil rights, was arrested trying to see Nelson Mandela, grew up in the black church, was raised in the Puerto Rican community, was a professor at UPenn, built the greatest economy in the world, and never spoke to his son… https://t.co/GIi6Q7KXeK
— Christian Collins (@CollinsforTX) July 25, 2023
Tuesday is not the only time that Biden has dumbfounded people when talking about cancer, though. Last July, while announcing executive orders on climate change, the president claimed that he, "and so damn many other people have cancer," which he blamed on "the oil slick" on the window.
FLASHBACK: A year ago, Biden claimed that his mother using windshield wipers to "get literally the oil slick off the window" is "why [he] and so damn many other people have cancer." pic.twitter.com/YIoBlZaLHh
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 25, 2023
The president had another gaffe in the same address, by claiming that "we have over 100 people dead," when he really meant to say "1 million." The White House transcript acknowledged and corrected that mistake, at least.
BIDEN: "We're still feeling the profound loss of the pandemic...over 100 people dead!" pic.twitter.com/GDeMQgVUV8
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 25, 2023
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