Easy rider? Easy fibber!
Career politician President Biden is being mocked for claiming he used to drive an 18-wheeler truck — with the White House only able to show he was once a passenger in one.
The 48-year political veteran made the claim while visiting a Mack Truck facility in Pennsylvania Wednesday.
“I used to drive an 18wheeler, man,” the 78-yearold commander-in-chief told staff, video of the exchange shows — with him clarifying that he “got to” drive one.
But challenged by Fox News to produce evidence, a
White House spokesperson could only point to a December 1973 article from the Wilmington Evening Journal that showed Biden rode in an 18-wheeler, not that he drove one.
“There is zero evidence that Biden ‘used to drive an 18 wheeler,’ ” tweeted the Republican National Committee’s Zach Parkinson.
“Truck driver, coal miner, it’s all just nonsense Biden makes up because he thinks reporters won’t call him on it,” Parkinson claimed.
When Fox News again pressed the White House that riding in a truck is not the same as being behind the wheel, a rep pointed to a United Federation of Teachers post that said Biden drove a school bus in the past as a summer job, the outlet said.
Biden has been accused of other flubs over his past, including that he “got started out of a HBCU, Delaware State” — which the historically black college denied.