Joe Biden is slammed for lying that he taught political theory at the University of Pennsylvania for four years – despite serving as honorary professor for two and never teaching a single class

President Joe Biden bizarrely said in a speech on Friday that he had taught political theory at an Ivy League university, where he was merely a visiting scholar and honorary professor.

Biden, at 80, the oldest president in the nation’s history, spoke Thursday at Prince George Community College in Maryland for an economic speech he intended to contrast with what he calls “Bidenomics” with police of his predecessor Donald Trump.

At one point, however, the president turned his speech toward a common theme, that democracy is “under attack,” when he suddenly brought up his time at the University of Pennsylvania.

“We have to fight for this,” Biden said. “I taught at the University of Pennsylvania for four years and taught political theory. And friends, always hear, every generation must fight for democracy.

However, although Biden served from 2017 to 2019 as the Benjamin Franklin Presidential Professor of Practice, there is no record of him teaching classes.

Biden appeared on campus for official events a dozen times between his departure from the vice presidency and the start of his campaign for president, the Philadelphia Investigator reported.

However, these were never full-time courses and were largely limited to question-and-answer sessions and public events – including one with former British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg – which earned him 900 000 $.

He gave a lecture at the university’s Wharton School of Economics, ironically an alma mater of former President Trump.

In 2018, the university opened the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington, DC.

FBI investigators searched the office President Biden used to maintain at the Washington think tank – days after his own lawyer identified classified documents there, it was revealed Tuesday.

Biden recently attended the university’s May commencement ceremonies with his recently indicted son Hunter.

Biden’s age has often led him to make inaccurate statements and Recent poll numbers show most consider the president too old to serve again.

In May, Biden again falsely claimed that his son Beau was killed while serving in Iraq while visiting U.S. troops stationed in Japan on Monday.

It was at least the third time that America’s oldest living president has spoken misleadingly in public about the death of his eldest son.

In October 2022, Biden said Beau died in Iraq while speaking at Camp Hale in Colorado.

“Imagine – I mean it – I say this as the father of a man who won the Bronze Star, the Distinguished Service Medal and lost his life in Iraq. Imagine the courage, the boldness and the true sacrifice – a true sacrifice that they all made,” Biden said then.

He also said Beau died in Iraq during a speech in Florida in November, right after he confused the war in Ukraine with the war in Iraq.

“Inflation is a global problem right now,” the president said. “There is a war in Iraq and its impact on oil and what Russia is doing. Excuse me, the war in Ukraine.

“I think about Iraq, because that’s where my son died – because he died,” Biden later explained.

The president has long linked his service and the military’s use of burners to Beau’s brain cancer diagnosis.

“In my opinion, I can’t prove it yet, he came back with stage 4 glioblastoma.” He lived eighteen months knowing he was going to die,” Biden said in 2019.

The younger Biden had been deployed to Iraq in 2009 and earned a Bronze Star medal for his service there with the Army.

The president has also been criticized for invoking his son Beau in military speeches in the past.

The New York Times and Washington Post both published opinion pieces Wednesday calling 80-year-old President Joe Biden too old to run for re-election in 2024.

Although Biden, 80, is only three years older than Donald Trump, 77, there is a 26% margin between those who think Biden is too old and those who think the ex-president is too old to serve another term.

A new Wall Street Journal poll taken Aug. 24-30 and released Monday, shows that only 36% of 1,500 voters surveyed think Biden is mentally fit for office, while 46% think Trump is mentally competent for the job.

The latest shows that 75% of voters think Biden is too old, compared to just 47% who think the same about Trump.

Those who think Biden is too old include two-thirds of Democrats.

Author Franklin Foer, who wrote a biography about Biden’s first two years in office, said Sunday he wouldn’t be “totally shocked” if the president ended up dropping out of the race before the end of the year.

When NBC Meet the Press host Chuck Todd asked him Sunday how he would react if Biden decided not to finalize his 2024 bid, Foer said, “That would be a surprise to me.” But it wouldn’t be a complete surprise.

The author who had “unprecedented access” to Biden and his inner circle, according to publisher Penguin Random House, noted that “one of the main insecurities” of the president “is that he doesn’t want to be seen like stupid.”

Biden, 80, announced his bid for a second term with Vice President Kamala Harris in late April — but questions emerged last year about whether the president is too old or too unfit to serve four more years .