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President Biden said on Wednesday that he has cancer, which caused the White House press office to quickly clarify that he was talking about the skin cancer treatment he had before taking office last year.
The president made the comment during a speech about global warming in which he talked about pollution from oil refineries near his childhood home in Claymont, Delaware. At first, it seemed like a shockingly casual comment about health.
“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,” Biden said.
The Post was told by White House spokesman Andrew Bates to look at a tweet from Washington Post columnist Glenn Kessler. In the tweet, Kessler said that Biden had "non-melanoma skin cancers" removed before he became president.
How dumb is this tweet? Check out Biden's medical report. Before he became president, he'd had non-melanoma skin cancers removed. Has no one at @RNCResearch ever had this common procedure? https://t.co/TS9VWtKcYC https://t.co/itklkVZIor
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) July 20, 2022
It’s unclear why Biden chose to use the present verb tense to describe his experience with cancer.
“He said ‘I have cancer’ in the present tense you absolute dips–t,” Greg Price of XStrategies LLC tweeted in response to Kessler.
Anarchist author Michael Malice, meanwhile, joked, “Don’t worry about Joe Biden having cancer, he is married to a doctor” — referring to the fact that first lady Jill Biden uses the honorific “Dr.” to note her 2007 doctorate in education.
Skin cancer is very common, especially in older people who didn't use sunscreen when they were younger. However, it usually doesn't cause death.
Last year, Biden's doctor, Dr. Kevin O'Connor, gave a health report in which he didn't say that the president had any cancers.
O’Connor’s report attributed Biden’s skin cancer to time in the sun, rather than exposure to chemicals used by the oil industry.
“It is well-established that President Biden did spend a good deal of time in the sun in his youth,” O’Connor wrote of his patient, a former swimming pool lifeguard.
“He has had several localized, non-melanoma skin cancers removed with Mohs surgery before he started his presidency. These lesions were completely excised, with clear margins,” the doctor added.
But O’Connor also noted, “there are no areas suspicious for skin cancer at this time.”
Pollution in the air can make skin conditions worse. But it's not clear if Biden has ever said that oil refiners caused his skin growths or if doctors have made that connection.
Biden, who is 79, is the oldest US president ever, and people often talk about how sharp his mind is.
He says, though, that he plans to run for a second term in 2024 unless he gets sick, and his supporters point out that he's had trouble for years with making mistakes or saying things that aren't true.
Biden often makes mistakes when he tries to connect with his audiences on a personal level.
In September, for example, he told Jewish leaders that he remembered "spending time at" and "going to" the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh after 11 people were killed there in 2018. The synagogue said he had never been there, and later, the White House said he was thinking about calling the synagogue's rabbi in 2019.
In the same month, Biden told an audience in Idaho that Boise Cascade, a local lumber and wood products company, gave him his "first job offer." The company said they didn't know about it, and Biden had never said he was interested in moving to the state before.
In January, Biden told students at historically black colleges in Atlanta that he was arrested during civil rights protests, which is also not true.
And in May, at the Naval Academy's graduation, Biden said that the late Sen. J. Caleb Boggs sent him to the military school in 1965. (R-Del.). Boggs's files were looked through, but there was no proof of the appointment.
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