- Wednesday, March 12, 2025
By: Shubham Ghosh
US PRESIDENT Joe Biden is known for his regular faux pas and on Wednesday (20), his audience remained witness to yet another one.
The Democratic leader, who would turn 80 this November, appeared to claim in a speech he made at a former coal plant in Somerset, Massachusetts, over climate change that he has cancer. Though the remark appeared a casual one, it soon set the social media on fire and the White House stepped in quickly to clarify that Biden was referring to skin-cancer treatment that he had received before becoming the president in January 2021.
Biden, who has committed blunders on several occasions during his campaign for the 2020 elections, was speaking on the harm caused by emissions from oil refineries when he spoke about his childhood home in Delaware.
“My mother drove us rather than us being able to walk and 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. 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,” the president said.
Did Joe Biden just announce he has cancer?
“That’s why I — and so damn many other people I grew up with — have cancer.” pic.twitter.com/lkm7AHJATX
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 20, 2022
Soon, many social media users asked whether Biden made an admission or yet another gaffe. Reactions poured in like wildfire over his remark before the White House came up with a clarification that the president was referring to his previous diagnosis.
The New York Post and Sky News approached the White House and its spokesperson Andrew Bates referred to a tweet from Washington Post columnist Glenn Kessler, who said Biden had “non-melanoma skin cancers” removed before he took office last year.
However, it could not yet stop a deluge of funny reactions that overwhelmed Twitter in no time over Biden’s “cancer” remark.
Breaking: @POTUS @JoeBiden has cancer!!! https://t.co/lRdG7u7qs3
— Dickie Dunn (@DickieDunn1977) July 21, 2022
Kamala finding out Joe Biden has cancer https://t.co/PwMzZS0ZzR pic.twitter.com/sM1ikuB7aL
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) July 20, 2022
Maybe Joe Biden meant to say that he, himself is a cancer to America.
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) July 20, 2022
Does Joe Biden have Cancer or Dementia?!
— justina (@justina7loren) July 21, 2022
Don't worry about Joe Biden having cancer, he is married to a doctor
— Michael Malice (@michaelmalice) July 20, 2022
How low can Republicans go? They have the audacity to mock Joe Biden for saying he had cancer, which he did.
— David Weissman (@davidmweissman) July 20, 2022
Pretty certain the American people deserve a clarification on whether or not Joe Biden has cancer.
— Chad Prather (@WatchChad) July 20, 2022
