Today, Monday, November 20, is the birthday of the 46th President of the United States of America. But instead of the traditional 81 candles, we decided to dig up as much gossip as possible.
- As a child he stuttered. His friends called him “Bye-Bye” because he couldn’t pronounce his name fluently.
- In the 1960s, he promised the mother of Neilia, his first wife, that he would one day become president of the United States.
- Biden still owns his 1967 Corvette Stingray, which he received as a wedding gift from his father.
- But he can also ride a motorcycle very well.
- He never drinks alcohol and has never smoked in his life.
- In this context, he told the New York Times in 2008 that there were “plenty of alcoholics in his family.”
- That’s why he often drinks orange-flavored Gatorade (yuck).
- In 2014, he was the “poorest” member of Congress.
- Instead, he and his wife Jill made $15 million from their books and speaking engagements between 2017 and 2018.
- His favorite foods include “BLT” sandwiches (an American specialty that we love), pizza, cookies, spaghetti with butter and tomato sauce.
- He also doesn’t like ‘healthy’ things.
- The basket of apples Obama kept in the Oval Office is long gone.
- But that doesn’t stop Joe from eating soup and salad for lunch, sometimes with grilled chicken.
- When his sister came to the White House for dinner in 2021, Jill served battered salmon with vegetables.
- Biden complained about his plate: “Damn, she only makes me eat healthy stuff.”
- After the first lady lost sight of him, he stuffed a lemon tart and a whole tub of ice cream into his mouth.
- Ice cream is also his favorite sin.
- Biden is a die-hard follower and also enjoys peanut butter and strawberry jelly sandwiches and chocolate chip cookies.
- “He has the taste of a five-year-old,” one longtime Biden adviser said ironically.
- It should also be mentioned that his wife’s guilty pleasure was sharing a martini and a side of fries with Michelle Obama.
- Joe Biden replaced the red ‘Cola Zero’ button that Donald Trump installed in the Oval Office with salt water from Dolle’s and his favorite cookies.
- Each cookie is packaged in an individual package with the gold White House seal. A product that is very popular with employees and visitors.
- Joe Biden claimed that the Queen of England served him Krimpets, an infamous pastry filled with Philadelphia marshmallows.
- It is believed he meant ‘crumpets’, the small biscuits popular in England at tea time.
- Regardless of his schedule as president, Biden made it a point to never skip Sunday night family dinner.
- In 2017, a dessert was named after Biden: ‘Big Red, White, and Biden’, a vanilla ball with chocolate chips. His favorite flavor.
- Not to be forgotten is the planet “2012 VP113 Biden”.
- Or the Australian bird “Joe the Pigeon”.
- Eh! An outdoor swimming pool also bears his name.
- When he became a lifeguard in this underserved part of Wilmington, he realized he had never been with a black person.
- Otherwise, Joe Biden starts his day with a workout session where he often lifts weights.
- During the 2020 campaign, he exhausted himself on traditional bicycles and exercise bikes.
- An exercise bike that he could not take with him to the White House because of the risk of being hacked by the Russians and Chinese.
- He also trains regularly with a sports trainer.
- His wife Jill runs every day and has run several marathons. This is primarily for a good cause.
- Although Biden is not a big television consumer, he watches his favorite morning shows during training, usually CNN’s “New Day” or MSNBC’s “Morning.”
- Besides, he has a TV hidden behind his desk.
- In 2022, while in the White House, he called a Fox News reporter a “stupid son of a bitch.” He didn’t know his microphone was still on.
- When he was vice president and dealing with international policy, he traveled 1.6 million miles on Air Force Two.
- Since he was in the Senate, he systematically interrupted all sessions when his children called him.
- As his son Hunter struggled with his numerous addiction issues, he called him every night before going to bed and texted him if he didn’t answer right away.
- Joe is only the second Catholic president, after a certain… JFK.
- When he saw Tom Cruise in “Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One” he realized that artificial intelligence could still be dangerous.
- His favorite film is a bit older: the sports drama ‘Chariots of Fire’.
- Why? «Because an athlete puts his fame and honor behind principles. This is a sign of true heroism.”
- His favorite band is just as cheesy: the traditional Irish folk band The Chieftains.
- Speaking of music flops, in September 2020, Biden embarrassed himself when he awkwardly danced to the song “Despacito” at a rally in Florida. As his opponents happily noted, “Despacito” means “slow” in Spanish.
- Biden lost his hair very quickly, but sported a beard at age 26 when he played “the pretty boy” in college.
- In 1977, Jill and Joe honeymooned at Lake Balaton in Hungary. The Cold War was not over yet.
- Nowadays he affectionately calls his wife “Jilly”.
- Did you know that he proposed to her five times before she finally agreed?
- And did you know that it was Joe’s sons who kept him from giving up?
- Did you know that after their first date, Jill said, “Never again! And what kind of suit is that?”
- Joe’s first wife and their young daughter died in a car accident in 1972.
- Her son Beau died of brain cancer in 2015.
- Since then, his father continues to wear the Virgin of Guadalupe rosary that Beau Biden was wearing when he died on his wrist.
- He also owns a Rolex Datejust 41, a Seiko and two Omega.
- When Joe travels, he and Jill talk on the phone several times a day.
- Whenever he attended a rally during the presidential campaign, he would leave long voice messages describing the scene and the crowd before him.
- During their years as vice president, the couple made a habit of arguing over text messages to avoid a fight in front of the Secret Service. (They called this habit “fexting,” a mix of “fighting” and “texting.”)
- In May 2012, Joe was scolded by Obama for advocating gay marriage on television… without his consent. The catch? Obama’s re-election campaign would begin a few days later.
- That’s why his little sentence caused her to explode way too early.
- When it comes to books, Biden prefers to read biographies and books on comparative religions.
- He writes in the margins and emphasizes and underlines what interests him.
- During the 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden treated his staff to several facts from Apple News, an application he apparently never deleted from his iPhone.
- The titles that impressed him include “The Largest Moth in the World” and “A Japanese Woman Lives to 119.”
- Joe Biden doesn’t like the White House much, which he describes as a “golden cage.” He spent only six of the first 29 weekends of his presidency, preferring to take refuge in Delaware.
- That is why he traveled by train for more than thirty years, traveling 2.5 hours each way every day.
- He is jealous of his cat, who can enter and leave the White House freely: “Willow can come in here at any time. It knows no boundaries.”
- You’ll also be happy to know that Willow “sleeps” on the head of the President of the United States.
- In the entire history of the United States, there have been only two presidential trips to war zones. And every time it was Biden, first to Ukraine and then to Israel.
- In 2021, Biden insulted Switzerland before the US Congress by describing it as a “tax haven” on par with Bermuda.
- He likes meeting the Americans who send him letters in ‘real life’ to ‘get out of the bubble’ in Washington.
- Biden is said to have asked Mike Donilon, the former national security adviser under Barack Obama, more than 10,000 times: “Mike, what do you think?”
- A precaution that, however, does not prevent him from committing a series of verbal slips and falls in public.
- Obama was somewhat skeptical about his candidacy in 2020: “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to screw things up.”he once said unofficially, according to Politico.
- In 2007, Biden was accused of racism when he described Barack Obama as the first African-American candidate who was “articulate, brilliant, clean and attractive.”
- Ben Rhodes, Obama’s former deputy national security adviser, wrote in his memoir that “Biden was like an unguided missile in the crisis room.”
- When an 83-year-old farmer mocked him for his questionable ability to run again in 2024, Biden responded, “Would you like to check my fitness? man? Let’s do push-ups together here. Let’s run. Let’s do what you want. Let’s take an IQ test, okay?’
- As Biden entered his delicate eighth decade in 2022, he asked those around him to remain discreet. So his wife organized a ridiculous brunch on Sunday morning. That is it.
- Then on the table? Bacon, eggs, toast, orange juice and… a coconut birthday cake.
Source: Watson
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