Joe Biden May Be the Worst Human Being to Occupy the Oval Office

One call, with the family of Specialist Kennedy Sanders, was broadcast on Good Morning America. I suspect ABC News figured it would be a touching moment to boost Biden, but it ended up being another example of Biden’s awfulness. 

For years now, he’s been perpetuating the fiction that his eldest son, Beau Biden, died in Iraq, and once again, he just couldn’t help himself.

"My son spent a year in Iraq; that's how I lost him,” he told the grieving family. 

Of course Biden called one of the three families who lost their child in the Iran-backed drone attack annnnd he made it all about Beau, claiming he's been in their exact same position.

The nerve of this guy.... pic.twitter.com/ddBDWtOwkI

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) February 1, 2024

Biden has repeatedly referenced the death of his son, even leveraging it for political purposes. One notable instance was during a debate with Donald Trump in 2020, where he brought up the debunked story from The Atlantic that claimed that President Trump didn't want to visit the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018, alleging that the troops buried there were "losers" and "suckers." Biden not only insisted that Trump apologize for the remarks he never made but also invoked Beau, who did not die in combat, saying he "wasn't a sucker."

Biden echoed this same attack last week, seemingly implying that Beau was buried there, which would be impossible because the Battle of Belleau Wood took place in 1918, during World War I, before even Joe Biden was born.

Biden also invoked his son's death to connect with the grieving families of U.S. servicemembers who lost their lives during the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. It didn't work though, and many of the grieving families panned Biden's conduct as inappropriate, noting that he "kept checking his watch and bringing up Beau."

The nature of Biden’s references to Beau hasn’t been entirely consistent either. Sometimes he acknowledges that he died of cancer and not in Iraq; other times he’s linked Beau’s cancer to his service in Iraq. He’s even defended his tendency to equate his son Beau’s death from brain cancer to death in combat by suggesting a connection between his son’s illness and exposure to toxic burn pits during his service in Iraq. 

However, even left-wing fact-checking groups have criticized Biden for this and pointed out no conclusive evidence connecting toxic burn pits and brain cancer. Not that this has stopped Biden from repeating that accusation. 

In the call with Spc. Sanders’ family, Biden said, "My son Beau, he [had] been near a burn pit in Baghdad and came down with stage four neuroblastoma, a brain tumor, and lost him, too."

But other times, he’s explicitly claimed, without any ambiguity, that Beau died in combat in Iraq. In October 2023, during a ceremony declaring the Camp Hale Continental Divide a national monument, Biden literally claimed Beau died in Iraq. 

“Just imagine — I mean it sincerely — I say this as a father of a man who won the Bronze Star, the conspicuous service medal, and lost his life in Iraq,” he said. “Imagine the courage, the daring, and the genuine sacrifice — genuine sacrifice they all made.”

Sometimes it seems that Joe Biden has come to believe the fiction that Beau died in Iraq, but he does, at the moment, seem to realize that this isn’t the case, which makes the constant references to him that much worse.

It is morally reprehensible for President Biden to falsely claim or suggest that his Beau died in Iraq, particularly when addressing Gold Star families who have actually experienced the profound loss of a loved one. The deliberate deception dishonors the memory of those who have made the ultimate sacrifice while serving their country.

It is also grotesque exploitation of the grief of the family members whose loved ones died because of his poor judgment as Commander-in-Chief. I dare say this might just make him the worst human being to occupy the Oval Office.