We're not sure when this stopped being funny and started being pretty alarming, but we definitely blew past that a good while ago:
President Biden Friday again made an exaggeration about the number of times he's been to the Middle East, as he gave a commencement speech to U.S. Naval Academy graduates in Maryland.
"I've been in and out of Iraq and Afghanistan of over 40 I think 38 times," the president said.
That number was incorrect, however. A spokesperson for Biden's National Security Council (NSC) said Friday the correct number of times Biden visited Iraq and Afghanistan is 21.
Biden just cannot stop himself from lying about this.
He wasn't exactly off by one or two here.
You've gotta feel for Joe's handlers, who all feel the same way about him after he makes one of his disastrous public appearances:
This is, we should note, not at all a new thing:
Friday's statement was not the first time Biden's made a false claim about how often he's visited the Middle East. While running for president, Biden said at least once he'd been to Iraq and Afghanistan "over 30 times," according to the Washington Post.
As a presidential candidate, Biden also told at least one "moving but false" war story, according to the Washington Post, which jumbled several events loosely together to create a narrative that "never happened."
Look, alarming as it is...you do gotta feel rather sorry for someone who's so publicly...you know...declining. It's not pleasant to watch.
All we can do is hope to contain the damage until Biden hopefully, mercifully retires to Delaware after one term.
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