In September 2023, information about the unusual statement of the US President spread on the Internet - he allegedly said that he was already 856 years old. We checked whether this news corresponds to reality.

Notes that Biden so “exaggerated” his age. Mediaincluding on their own Pages On the blog-platforms. Internet users with their derogatory comments ridiculed Biden and his words in social networks ("VKontakte" Facebook*). The most widespread news went into Telegram: it was published in the channels "Ostashko! Important"(124,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Communication unit"(58 000),"Notepad Russia"(49,000),"Nonal news"(31 000),"The world is in the moment"(17,000) and others.

September 22, 2023 Joe Biden announced On the creation of a new unit in the administration of the President of the United States, which will prevent violence with firearms. During this speech, he said: “I remember how young. We have something in common (with a 26-year-old congressman Maxwell Frostwho invited Biden to the microphone. - approx. Ed.): I was elected to the Senate when I was 29 years old. <...> It was 827 years ago, a lot of time passed. " It was from the addition of two numbers mentioned by Bayden that the number 856 was obtained, which appears in reports on social networks. As evidence, their authors use a 15-second fragment, which breaks off immediately after the words “827 years ago”.

The audience who attended the policy of the politician obviously took his words as a joke - in full video, laughter was clearly heard when Baiden clearly exaggerates how long he was elected to Congress (this is reflected in stenigram On the official website of the White House). The congressman Frost and Vice President Kamal Harris, who were standing next to the President, are also laughing-they would hardly have so frankly ridiculed their senior colleague. Since the video clip that spread on the network ends immediately after Bayden’s words, neither the reaction of the hall, nor the laughter of the politicians standing on the stage did not get into the video.

The earliest of the discovered "verified" publication In Russian with this 15-second video and the signature that Biden “made a discouraging statement of his age” appeared on September 23, 2023, the day after Bayden’s performance, in the Telegram channel “Ostashko! Important ”, which belongs to the Russian TV presenter Ruslan Ostashko. "Checked" more than once Catch him on distribution inaccurate or completely fabricated news.

Joe Biden, indeed, is the most age -related The President of the United States, on the day of the inauguration, he was 78 years old. This fact was a reason for numerous jokes and ridicule from Biden's opponents, who are trying to introduce him to an insane old man who is not able to rule the country. "Verified" has already analyzed reports that a politician got lost in the Capitol that his Noticed in the store choosing books to combat dementia or that it is I did not recognize and pushed it off British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. All of them turned out to be untrue, some were specially fabricated to put up the US president in an unprofitable light.

Biden is not averse to joining during his public speaking, and his statements are often pulled out of context and pretend to be inadequate. For example, it was with the scattered quote The fact that the policy “opened a skull for a couple of times to make sure that there was a brain”, which was part of the story about the operation due to aneurysm, and with it words The fact that he sold many state secrets that he pronounced at a meeting with the heads of US technological companies and immediately called them a joke. This happened this time. This is not the first time the American president jokes about his age - for example, in June 2023 at a charity event in California he Compared His experience in foreign policy with the American diplomat Henry Kissinger, clarifying that “he has been doing this all his life, the last 207 years” (Kissinger himself celebrated the 100th anniversary in the spring).

Thus, Biden really said that he was 856 years old, although in other words, but it was clearly a joke - he was really the oldest president of the United States and, despite the constant attacks of opponents about this, are not averse to sagging over his respectable age.

*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns the social network Facebook, an extremist organization, its activities in Russia are prohibited.

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