Joe Biden has a long, well-documented record of fabricating and embellishing his own life story, repeating debunked tales as if saying them often enough would make them true. Plenty of his stories about his past never passed the smell test, and fact-checkers took many of them apart with ease. He has spent decades lying about his past to build a political brand.
Now he has a presidential memoir on the way, and it's clear he plans to give his time in the White House the same treatment.
And we expected nothing less.
In an interview about the book, Promise Me, America, Biden brushed off his disastrous June 2024 debate against Donald Trump.
"Look, I don't know anybody who hasn't made a mistake in a debate. To me, it was not very consequential. First of all, I thought there'd be another debate, which there wasn't," Biden said.
Joe Biden now claims his 2024 presidential debate against President Trump, which forced him to drop out of the race, was not very consequential:
— Steve Cortes (@SteveCortes) November 11, 2026
“To me it was not very consequential. First of all I thought there would be another debate, which there wasn’t. Notwithstanding the… https://t.co/2uXA09ZAT4
Not very consequential?
That debate literally ended his reelection campaign. Within weeks, Biden dropped out and endorsed then-Vice President Kamala Harris. It takes a striking lack of self-awareness to wave that away.
The hilarious thing about that steaming pile of horse apples is that Biden's version contradicts the one his own wife is selling. In interviews and in her memoir, Jill Biden argues the debate went so badly that her husband must have been drugged, either by a sleeping aid he mistook for cold medicine or by a spiked drink.
So which is it? Was the night meaningless, or was it so catastrophic that only sabotage could explain it?
That's hardly the only whopper we can expect from his upcoming novel (excuse me, memoir).
Take his cancer diagnosis.
In May 2025, just 118 days after he left office, Biden revealed he had stage 4 prostate cancer that had already spread to his bones. He insisted in his new interview he would have stepped aside had he known.
"What I can't say, because there's no evidence of it — if I had known that I was feeling lousy because I had cancer, I would have resigned," Biden said.
"I would've not gone forward, because I don't think an 80-year-old man with cancer should be running for [president]," he continued. "But that wasn't the case."
In the same breath, he claimed, "I believe that on an objective basis, I was the best-equipped person to do the job."
🚨 Biden ADMITS it: "if I had known that I was feeling lousy because I had cancer, I would have RESIGNED."
— Mr Producer (@RichSementa) November 11, 2026
"I don't think an 80-year-old man with cancer should be running"
Then: "I was the best equipped person to do the job."
Sure, Joe. https://t.co/qj3AXAD3VU
In the memoir itself, Biden leans on the claim that standard guidelines don't call for routine prostate screening in men over 70. "I was treated no differently from any other 82-year-old man in America. Maybe I should have been," he writes.
Asked whether he concealed the diagnosis, Biden called that suggestion a "cynical twist."
"A lot of people do that. They hide bad news from the public if they're elected officials. I didn't do that ... I wasn't hiding it at all," he insisted.
Let's be honest, here. This is horsefeathers.
A PSA blood test belongs in any serious presidential physical, and it would have caught this.
On top of that, Jill Biden writes that she noticed her husband waking up repeatedly in the night during his final year in office, that she alerted his doctors, and that she pushed him to see a urologist. Yet we're supposed to believe nobody found anything or even tested for it until four months after he moved out?
Sorry, not a chance.
Medical experts didn't buy it either. Dr. David Shusterman, a urologist, told NewsNation last year that it's "very unlikely" a president with top-tier medical oversight and annual physicals would show no signs of a cancer this advanced.
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"You don't typically see something this severe unless a patient hasn't had medical care in 10 years," Shusterman said. "Even in the inner city populations we wouldn't see it this bad."
Dr. Zeke Emanuel, a medical ethicist who advised the Obama administration, went further, arguing that the cancer likely developed years before the public heard about it and that the White House almost certainly knew.
The purpose of Joe Biden's memoir is simple: rewrite history and repair a presidential legacy that collapsed in real time on live television. We all know Biden loves to spin fictions about his life, and this book is going to be full of them. A man who spent half a century inventing his past will spend his final chapter inventing his presidency, and he'll count on the same friendly press to let it slide.
