White House denies Biden has new cancer diagnosis after speech flub

The president was speaking in Massachusetts to announce $2.3 billion in new funding to combat climate change when he detailed a story from his childhood about air pollution.

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“That’s why I and so damn many other people I grew up [with] have cancer,” Biden said. “For the longest time, Delaware had the highest cancer rate in the nation, but that’s the past.”

Biden’s latest presidential bill of health notes that prior to entering office, he had a number of cancerous lesions removed.

“It is well-established that President Biden did spend a good deal of time in the sun in his youth. He has had several localized, non-melanoma skin cancers removed with Mohs surgery before he started his presidency,” the report read. “There are no areas suspicious for skin cancers at this time.”

White House officials pointed the Washington Examiner to a tweet from fact-checker Glenn Kessler when asked about the chatter on social media about the president’s comments.

“How dumb is this tweet? Check out Biden’s medical report. Before he became president, he’d had non-melanoma skin cancers removed,” Kessler wrote over a clip of Biden’s remarks tweeted by the Republican National Committee. “Has no one at @RNCResearch ever had this common procedure?”

A number of accounts, including several foreign reporters, questioned Biden’s words prior to the White House’s clarification.

Biden has frequently made eyebrow-raising gaffes, including two others in Wednesday’s speech. He referred to a male Massachusetts lawmaker as “she” and said Glasgow was in England rather than Scotland.

The president also made a reference to his past condition being caused by oil spewing from his mother’s car, rather than the sun exposure mentioned in medical reports.

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