Here are 21 made-up stories Biden has told about himself as president.
1. Biden claimed multiples times he spoke to the âinventorâ of insulin.
Multiple scientists are credited with discovering insulin; two died before Biden was born and there is no evidence Biden met the others.
2. Biden claimed â on multiple occasions â he âused to driveâ an 18-wheeler â sometimes with a woman he calls âBig Mama.â
Biden **rode** in an 18-wheeler once nearly 50 years ago. Heâs never driven one.
3. Biden claimed he âhad a house burn down with my wife in itâ and said they âalmost lost a couple firefighters.â
In 2005, Bidenâs house had a âsmallâ fire that was contained to the kitchen and âthere were no injuries.â   Â
4. Biden claimed he was âraised in the Puerto Rican communityâ of Delaware.
There is no evidence of this, of course. In Delaware in 1970, only 2,154 people â 0.39% of the state population â were of Puerto Rican descent.
5. Biden claimed he served as a âliaisonâ to Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir during the Six-Day War.
Biden was plagiarizing fellow students at Syracuse law school during the war and Meir wasnât even prime minister.
6. Biden said he remembered âspending timeâ and âgoing toâ the Tree of Life synagogue after the 2018 shooting.
The synagogue said Biden never visited.
7. Biden claimed his âfirst job offerâ came from Boise Cascade, an Idaho lumber company.
The company said they have âno record of President Bidenâs application or of him having worked for the company.â
8. Biden said after he was elected VP, he awarded his Uncle Frank with a Purple Heart.
Bidenâs uncle â who was not a Purple Heart recipient â died in 1999 and Biden wasnât elected VP until 2008.
9. Biden claimed he âwas appointed to the [Naval] Academy in 1965.
There is no record of Biden being nominated to the Naval Academy, and Biden graduated from the University of Delaware in 1965 â making it impossible.
10. Biden claimed at least seven times that he had a conversation with an Amtrak conductor in 2012 or 2013 about traveling over 1 million miles on Air Force Two.
The conductor retired in 1993, passed away in 2014, and Biden didnât hit 1 million miles on AF2 until 2015.
11. Biden claimed oil refinery pollution is the reason âI and so damn many other people I grew up have cancer.â
Biden doesnât have cancer. He *had* skin cancer, but the cause was sun exposure â not pollution. Biden also previously blamed oil refineries for why he had asthma.
12. Biden frequently claims to have been a âfull professorâ at the University of Pennsylvania after being VP.
Biden took nearly $1 million from UPenn over a two year time frame when average undergraduate tuition increased by 8 percent, but he didnât teach a single class.
13. Biden claimed his âgreat-grandpop wasâ a coal miner â something he has been saying for decades.
He wasnât, a fact which Biden even admitted back in 2004.
14. Biden claimed his grandfather was an âAll-American football playerâ at Santa Clara University.
Santa Clara and NCAA records show no evidence of Bidenâs grandfather being an All-American.
15. Biden claimed he âcould have been an All-Americanâ football player.
Biden played on the *freshman* football team for part of *one* semester in college. Thatâs it.
16. Biden claimed he almost walked on to an unnamed NFL team and thought he âcould make it in the pros.â
There is no evidence of this. Biden barely played any college football before his father forced him to quit the team because of bad grades.
17. Biden claimed he hit a ball 368 feet âoff the wallâ at his second Congressional baseball game.
Biden actually went 0-2, according to a 1974 newspaper article.
18. Biden claimed he was âshot atâ overseas â something he also lied about in 2007.
It never happened.
19. Biden said that when he was a County Council member, a woman once asked him to remove a dead dog from her lawn â but instead of removing it, Biden claimed he left it on her doorstep.
When Biden told the same story a year earlier, he said he removed it. So, which is it?
20. Biden repeatedly claimed he was âinvolvedâ in the civil rights movement.
None of that is remotely true. Biden even admitted in 1987 he was ânot an activist.â
21. Biden claimed âthe first timeâ he âgot arrestedâ was at a civil rights protest.
There is no evidence Biden has ever been arrested (despite repeatedly claiming he has been), and he was not a civil rights activist.