President Joe Biden was accused of appearing to rewrite history during an interview with Nicolle Wallace on MSNBC.
During his interview with Wallace on Thursday, Biden used a quote from the Declaration of Independence and instead said it was taken from the Constitution.
Biden’s interview came after the Supreme Court ruled to end affirmative action programs in two lawsuits against Harvard and the University of North Carolina (UNC).
“The Constitution says, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women are created equal, endowed by their creator.’ It’s the uniqueness of America, we’ve never fully lived up to it, but never walked away from it,” said Biden.
The quote from which Biden was referring was taken from the Declaration of Independence.
“Biden Rewriting History, Again,” one Twitter user wrote in response to Biden’s interview.
Biden Rewriting History, Again: Biden confused the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Then he while accuses the Supreme Court of not "embracing" the Constitution. He then says "we fought a war in 1960."pic.twitter.com/zxbKpwmD1a
— John Cremeans USA (@JohnCremeansUSA) June 29, 2023
“The idea that there’s no right of privacy in the Constitution, giving states power that we fought a war over in 1960,” said Biden, continuing to criticize the Supreme Court’s decision.
Biden came under fire for also saying that the U.S. had fought a war in 1960, when he may have meant 1860, regarding the start of the Civil War.
One Twitter user wrote that Biden had “slurred his way” through the interview with Wallace, dubbing it as a “train wreck.”
He claimed “there was a civil war in the U.S. in 1960” and mixed up “the Constitution and the Declaration Of Independence before wandering off the set like a lost Alzheimer’s sufferer,” the user wrote.
Joe Biden slurred his way through train wreck of an interview Thursday, claiming there was a civil war in the U.S. in 1960 and mixing up the Constitution and the Declaration Of Independence before wandering off the set like a lost Alzheimer’s sufferer.https://t.co/QAHLw4lAqR
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) June 30, 2023
“Joe Biden doesn’t even know the difference between the Declaration of Independence & the Constitution,” another Twitter user wrote. “Joe Biden thinks we fought a war in 1960.”
Joe Biden doesn’t even know the difference between the Declaration of Independence & the Constitution.
— Tricia Flanagan (R-NJ) (@NewDayForNJ) June 30, 2023
Joe Biden thinks we fought a war in 1960.
When are you going to pull the plug on this guy @DNC ???pic.twitter.com/wJudZhSQE2
Biden, 80, has frequently attracted attention for his many gaffes.
During a visit to Lucy Evans Baylands Nature Interpretive Center and Preserve in Palo Alto, California, Biden mixed up his years. The president vowed to conserve “30% of all the lands and water” in the U.S. by 2020.
Earlier in the month, Biden said, “God save the queen, man” after he gave a speech on gun control at the National Safety Communities Summit in Hartford, Connecticut.
Prior to this incident, Biden told military troops, while visiting the Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in Japan, that his son Beau Biden had died in Iraq.
“My son was a major in the U.S. Army. We lost him in Iraq,” Biden told the troops.
Beau died at the age of 46, in May 2015 while at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, from brain cancer. Prior to his death, Beau had done a deployment to Iraq in 2008, according to the Associated Press.
Biden has previously claimed that Beau had died in Iraq. In 2018, Biden expressed the belief that he thought the toxins from burning waste in Iraq may have contributed to his son’s brain cancer, PBS News reported.