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President Joe Biden is repeating claims that he was once a truck driver, despite being called out for cheating
At a campaign event this week, the president repeated debunked claims that he was once a truck driver.
April 25, 2024, published at 3:30 PM ET
President Joe Biden doubled down on an exaggerated version of his past during a speech in Florida this week, in which he claimed to have once been a truck driver, RadarOnline.com has learned.
At one campaign event On Tuesday in Tampa, Biden was discussing his staunch pro-union stance when an appreciative audience member shouted, “The only reason I have a pension is because of you.”
The proponent appeared to be referring to the $36 billion in federal aid the president spent to prevent pension cuts for more than 350,000 union workers and retirees.
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“Well, we got that done,” Biden responded, adding, “Besides, I drove an eighteen-wheeler.”
Biden has previously made the same claim when he toured a Mack Trucks factory in July 2021.
“I used to drive an 18-wheeler, man,” the president said at the time, adding, “I have to.”
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Biden worked as a school bus driver in the 1960s.
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A few months later, in November, he told students at Dakota County Technical College in Minnesota, “I used to drive a tractor, so I know a little bit about driving big trucks.”
“I only did it for part of the summer, but I still got my driver’s license,” the president continued.
CNN, PolitiFact And Candy However, have called out the president for not being truthful about these stories.
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“Biden’s claim remains false. There is no evidence he ever drove an 18-wheeler,” CNN reported Wednesday.
The White House previously told the outlet that Biden had worked as a school bus driver in the past, and that he once drove a truck overnight as a senator in 1973.
PolitiFact confirmed CNN’s reports, noting that the president’s stint as a bus driver occurred while he was in law school at Syracuse University in the 1960s.
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The president also recently denied ever making $400,000 a year, but CNN reported that he has earned this amount annually as president.
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The tractor-trailer ride from Delaware to Ohio in ’73 was Biden’s “best experience” as a truck driver, PolitiFact also reported.
According to Snopes, the president embarked on the trip because he wanted “a first-hand account from the truck drivers, who say they transport 50 percent of all goods shipped within the United States.”
The president revised his apparently distorted version of events after raising eyebrows over comments he made in Pennsylvania last week.
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Biden denied ever making $400,000 a year, but CNN wrote in another report that he earned that much annually as president, and that he “made millions” in 2017 and 2018.
He also told a disturbing story about his uncle’s death in a plane crash in World War II, which indicated that the plane had been shot down and his uncle’s body eaten by cannibals. However, the Defense Department’s account of the 1944 incident contradicts this story, according to CNN.
While both candidates have been scrutinized for their truthfulness in the upcoming presidential election, Biden has paled in comparison to his rival. Donald Trump.
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In February, PolitiFact published it’s the thousandth fact-check of a Trump claim that it has been rated “Pants on Fire” — the newspaper’s designation for an outright lie.
The former president and presumptive 2024 Republican nominee claimed that Democrats used the Covid-19 pandemic to “cheat” in the 2020 election. He made the comments during his victory speech before the New Hampshire primary in January.
“It is not unusual for politicians from both parties to mislead, exaggerate or fabricate things,” PolitiFact reported. “But American fact-checkers have never encountered a politician who shares Trump’s disdain for factual accuracy.”
