Cornpop is a foul man. However Cornpop clearly has competitors.
President Biden spoke on the NAACP nationwide conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday, recalling one among his greatest associates from childhood.
The buddy—Richard Smith, former president of the Delaware chapter of the NAACP—was nicknamed “Rat.”
“One in all my greatest associates, we have been, after I was a lifeguard on the undertaking, he was a, his title was — his nickname was ‘Rat,'” Biden advised the gang.
WATCH: Biden says his greatest associates have been “rats” when he was a “lifeguard within the tasks.”
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) July 16, 2024
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Biden, rats and corn pops within the works
President Biden typically likes to speak about his time as a lifeguard in these packages, although it is unclear whether or not there’s a lot avenue cred to be gained from coping with a man named “Rat” and taking up a gang member named “Corn Pops.” A bit controversial.
Richard “Rat” Smith additionally spoke about Biden’s expertise because the “solely white man” working as a lifeguard at a undertaking in Wilmington, Delaware.
“We confirmed Joe that we may settle for white individuals,” Smith mentioned in a 2017 interview. “Joe understood black individuals, poor individuals, all of them.”
Biden additionally likes to speak about cornpop on the identical pool and the way he confronted a gang chief as a result of he wasn’t carrying a swimming cap.
In keeping with his model of occasions in 2019, the epic confrontation concerned Cornpop, who was armed with a rusty straight-edge razor, and Biden, who had a six-foot chain wrapped round his hand.
Cooler heads will finally prevail when Biden apologizes for calling corn pop “Esther.” As a result of an apology at all times works after you threaten a razor-wielding gang chief.
That is, properly, a narrative. Extremely, he advised the story whereas surrounded by kids by the pool.
“Cornpop is a foul man.”#BidenHarris2024 #Biden pic.twitter.com/ALap0Pzsmu
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bushy legs lifeguard
By the way, this corn pop video is from the identical occasion the place Biden tells the gang on the poolside how children love enjoying together with his bushy legs.
I hope that is one thing I make up for.
“I used to be sitting within the stands and it was getting hotter and warmer, and my legs have been bushy and turned blond within the solar,” he mentioned. “The children used to return up, attain into the pool, rub my leg, make it straighten, and watch the hair develop again. They’d watch.
“So, I realized about cockroaches, I realized about children leaping on my lap, and I really like having children leaping on my lap.”
This cannot be actual life…
— Murtaugh (@TimMurtaugh) December 1, 2019
It’s value noting that the media noticed such a video in 2019 however solely publicly questioned his cognitive skills in latest weeks.
