Biden told Polish leader he wanted to add “sk-i” to the end of his name

What’s with the bit of ethnic humor between world leaders?

President Biden joked with his Polish colleague on Tuesday that he wanted to add “ski” or “o” to the end of his last name because he supposedly lived in a Delaware area with a large population of Poles and Italians and wanted to fit in.

Biden, 80, who was in Warsaw to mark the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, spoke after a bilateral meeting with Polish President Andrzej Duda about his family’s big move.

“As a young man, I was born in the coal town of Scranton, Pennsylvania, in northeastern Pennsylvania, in an Irish Catholic area. Then, when the coal died, we moved to Delaware, to a city called Claymont, Delaware, which was a working city,” Biden recalled. “But everyone in the city was either Pole or Italian. I grew up feeling embarrassed that my name didn’t end in “sk-i” or “o”.

The comment was similar to Biden’s other remarks about his alleged association with other racial, national or minority groups.

Last October, Biden told an audience in Puerto Rico that “I kind of grew up in the Puerto Rican community at home, politically” — despite the fact that only about 2,000 people of Puerto Rican descent lived in Delaware when Biden launched his political career in the early 1970s. -s

In September 2021, Biden told Jewish leaders that he remembers “having time” and “going” to Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue in 2018 after the worst anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history that killed 11 people. The synagogue said he never attended a synagogue, and the White House later said he was thinking about a phone call to the synagogue’s rabbi in 2019.

Last January, Biden told students at historic Atlanta colleges that he had been arrested several times during civil rights protests, another statement that is not proof.

During his presidential campaign, Biden claimed to have been “politically raised in the black church” and was a teenage civil rights activist at Union Baptist Church in Wilmington. However, longtime members of the church later stated that Biden never attended services or took part in organizing demonstrations in his youth.

Biden’s stop in Warsaw followed a surprise visit to Kiev on Monday, where he met with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky, pledged another $460 million in military aid, and toured the war-torn city as air raid sirens wailed overhead.

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