President Joe Biden triggered an avalanche of speculation about his health after a story he told during a speech that was meant to focus on climate change.
On Wednesday, Biden told a story about growing up and oil slicks on windshields.
“Guess what, the first frost, you know what was happening, you had to put on your windshield wipers to get literally the oil slick off the window,” the president said.
He added, “That’s why I and so damn many other people I grew up with have cancer. And why for the longest time, Delaware had the highest cancer rate in the nation.”
Watch the video below:
Biden: "You had to put on your windshield wipers to get literally the oil slick off the window. That's why I and so damn many other people I grew up with have cancer."pic.twitter.com/IvCvprDKJV
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) July 20, 2022
The Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles tweeted, “Biden has cancer?”
Biden has cancer? pic.twitter.com/1NI5Z9olmO
— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) July 20, 2022
Check out some of the other reactions below:
Wait, did Joe Biden just announce he has cancer…? https://t.co/LJsYbc3djp
— Sara Gonzales (@SaraGonzalesTX) July 20, 2022
Maybe Joe Biden meant to say that he, himself is a cancer to America.
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) July 20, 2022
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) July 20, 2022
I have officially asked the White House if the president has cancer. Stay tuned https://t.co/b6dC5jx42U
— Collin Anderson (@CAndersonMO) July 20, 2022
Um, wut? https://t.co/BRF777kEXJ
— Mike Opelka (@stuntbrain) July 20, 2022
Pumped to see the transcript of this one https://t.co/8jJUCn4d2N
— Geoffrey Ingersoll (@GPIngersoll) July 20, 2022
Did Biden just admit he has cancer? https://t.co/X3q41110UB
— Amber Smith (@AmberSmithUSA) July 20, 2022
Glenn Kessler, a fact checker for The Washington Post tweeted, “How dumb is this tweet? Check out Biden’s medical report. Before he became president, he’d had non-melanoma skin cancers removed.”
How dumb is this tweet? Check out Biden's medical report. Before he became president, he'd had non-melanoma skin cancers removed. Has no one at @RNCResearch ever had this common procedure? https://t.co/TS9VWtKcYC https://t.co/itklkVZIor
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) July 20, 2022
However, some Twitter users pointed out that the report says the skin cancer was from spending “a good deal of time in the sun in his youth” and that the cancers were removed before he entered the White House.
