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Joe Biden appeared to either make a gaffe or make a stunning health announcement. Numerous outlets are beginning to report on this story.
The video is quickly going viral as Biden says he and others who he grew up with have cancer.
Speaking about the health effects of emissions from oil refineries near his childhood home in Delaware, Biden said, “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, who is 79, is the oldest-ever US president. He was speaking near a former coal power plant.
Watch the clip below:
Biden: "I and so many other people I grew up with have cancer." pic.twitter.com/TUiBZJqbBR
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) July 20, 2022
Former White House physician Ronny Jackson, who served under both Barack Obama and Donald Trump, has recently spoken out about Biden’s declining mental state.
“Something’s seriously wrong with Biden,” Jackson said. “And it’s only going to get worse. It’s past the point of embarrassment. He’s lost. He’s confused. He can barely put a coherent sentence together.”
Jackson has publicly demanded that Biden undergoes a cognitive exam and release the results. Following these questions about Biden’s mental capacity to serve, former president Barack Obama sent a private email to Jackson that reprimanded him over the comments.
Obama told Jackson that he’s a “fine doctor” and a “friend” who has “serve me and my family well.” He also notes that he has “always spoken highly of you both in public and in private.”
Nonetheless, Obama went on to express his “disappointment” over “the cheap shot you took at Joe Biden.”
“That’s why I have to express my disappointment at the cheap shot you took at Joe Biden via Twitter,” Obama wrote. “It was unprofessional and beneath the office that you once held. It was also disrespectful to me and the many friends you had in our administration,” he continued.
“You were the personal physician to the President of the United States as well as an admiral in the U.S. Navy. I expect better, and I hope upon reflection that you will expect more of yourself in the future,” Obama told Jackson.
Here’s a screenshot of the email:
More on this story via Fox News:
Surprised and flustered by the email, Jackson ultimately chose not to respond. Jackson recalls considering whether to call the former president, but a friend of his, radio host and conservative commentator Dan Bongino, reminded him that Obama did nothing while Jackson was in the midst of a Senate confirmation fight to be Trump’s secretary for the Department of Veterans Affairs.
“So, upon reflection, I thought, You know what? Screw that guy! I’m not doing it,” Jackson wrote. “I just walked away from it, which was the last time I had any contact with [Obama],” Jackson wrote. Obama did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
“It’s awfully ironic now, considering [Biden’s mental fitness] is all anyone, including the liberal media, can talk about,” Jackson told Fox News Digital.
“Let it be known, as the White House physician for the last three presidents, I was the first to say that we have a serious problem with this man’s cognitive demise, and he will not make it four years in office. I’ve always said there would come a point where it wouldn’t be just me talking about it, but his own party, and sadly, that has proven to be the case. Joe Biden’s cognitive failures are on full display for the whole world to see,” Jackson said.
“Holding the Line,” which chronicles Jackson’s journey to the White House as a Navy physician, his relationships with the three presidents that he served and his early political career at a time when the political left was determined to destroy him, comes out on July 26.
