President Joe Biden served up another addition to his already massive highlight reel of gaffes when the geriatric leader stumbled over his tongue during a speech touting his regime’s high-speed rail investments.
On Friday, Biden stopped off in Las Vegas, Nevada while on his way to a star-studded Hollywood fundraiser, and during his remarks to union members, the 81-year-old Democrat tossed out a number greatly in excess of the $8.2 billion for the 10 new passenger rail projects across the country.
According to the president, the amount that the federal government would spend is “over a billion, three hundred million, trillion, three hundred million dollars.”
BIDEN: “Over a billion three hundred million trillion three hundred million dollars!” pic.twitter.com/4pVbAPrKef
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) December 8, 2023
Biden was more articulate when the topic was his likely opponent in next year’s pivotal election, GOP frontrunner and former President Donald J. Trump.
“Trump just talks the talk. We walk the walk,” he told the audience at the union hall for carpenters. “He likes to say America is a failing nation. Frankly, he doesn’t know what the hell he’s talking about. I see shovels in the ground, cranes in the sky. People hard at work rebuilding America together.”
The octogenarian leader’s exaggeration of the infrastructure money had X users tossing out their takes on the verbal train wreck.
I see they loaded Joe up on amphetamines again…
— Republican Reflections (@RepublicanRefl) December 9, 2023
That’s how much Hunter spent on crack and hookers!
— Ban Notice (@BannedNotice) December 8, 2023
Imagine the noises inside this man’s head as he gibbers, squint-eyed, at the camera. It has to sound like a broken-down rollercoaster in there.
— Chris Bray (@a_chrisbray) December 9, 2023
The jeering media made a national story out of covfefe. Those were quaint times.
— Eugene Havens (@eugenehavens) December 9, 2023
Oh sweet Jesus, what did he just say? Biden is being given medication everyday, but it is not working! Game Over!
— P Scott (@PScott07436438) December 9, 2023
Is this in reference to Ukraine?
— Rag Danneskjold (@danneskjold_rag) December 9, 2023
The teller of tall tales once again regaled an audience with his widely debunked yarn about a conductor congratulating him for traveling over a million miles on Amtrak, regularly commuting between his home in Delaware and Washington, D.C.
Biden once again repeats the widely debunked story about an Amtrak conductor congratulating him for traveling more than a million miles on Amtrak as vice president.
The conductor retired from Amtrak in 1993. This never happened. pic.twitter.com/ej9E6V0SSN
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) December 8, 2023
“One of the senior guys at Amtrak, I became friends with him after all the years, and I’d ridden 36 years as a senator and he comes up to me — his name is Angelo — and he comes over and he says ‘Joey, baby!’ and grabs my cheek, “I thought they were gonna shoot him,” he told the audience which he had eating out of his hand.
“And I said, ‘Ang, what’s the matter?’ He said, ‘We just — I just read the newspaper’ — because they keep meticulous mileage how many times you use…how many miles you use on aircraft for the United States Air Force as vice president,” he continued. ‘I just read in the paper, Joey, that you traveled one thousand… oh excuse me,” he said, flubbing his numbers again. “One million, two hundred thousand miles on Air Force,” Biden added.
“He said, ‘Big —’ I won’t quote him exactly. He said, ‘Big deal, Joey.’ He said, ‘We just had a retirement dinner in Newark, New Jersey… You know how many miles you’ve ridden?’ I said, ‘No, Ang.’ He said, ‘1,000,327 miles. I don’t hear any more about the Air Force.’
But as has been the case with Biden throughout his half-century as a D.C. insider, he doesn’t let the truth get in the way of telling a good story and the Amtrak tale didn’t pass muster with the fact-checkers.
“Biden’s account simply does not add up. Biden did not reach the million-miles-flown mark as vice president until September 2015, according to his own past comments. But Negri retired from Amtrak in 1993 and died in May 2014, according to an obituary published online and in the Asbury Park Press, a New Jersey newspaper,” CNN reported in 2021.
“Today, the Biden-Harris Administration is announcing $8.2 billion in new funding for 10 major passenger rail projects across the country, including the first world-class high-speed rail projects in our country’s history,” the White House said in a Friday press release.
“Key selected projects include: building a new high-speed rail system between California and Nevada, which will serve more than 11 million passengers annually; creating a high-speed rail line through California’s Central Valley to ultimately link Los Angeles and San Francisco, supporting travel with speeds up to 220 mph; delivering significant upgrades to frequently-traveled rail corridors in Virginia, North Carolina, and the District of Columbia; and upgrading and expanding capacity at Chicago Union Station in Illinois, one of the nation’s busiest rail hubs,” the statement read.
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