Cornpop is a bad guy. But Cornpop clearly has competition.
President Biden spoke at the NAACP national convention in Las Vegas on Tuesday, recalling one of his best friends from childhood.
The friend—Richard Smith, former president of the Delaware chapter of the NAACP—was nicknamed “Rat.”
“One of my best friends, we were, when I was a lifeguard on the project, he was a, his name was — his nickname was ‘Rat,'” Biden told the crowd.
WATCH: Biden says his best friends were “rats” when he was a “lifeguard in the projects.”
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Biden, rats and corn pops in the works
President Biden often likes to talk about his time as a lifeguard in these programs, though whether dealing with a guy named “Rat” and taking on a gang member named “Corn Pops” won him much street cred, This is controversial.
Richard “Rat” Smith also spoke about Biden’s experience as the “only white man” working as a lifeguard at a project in Wilmington, Delaware.
“We showed Joe that we could accept white people,” Smith said in a 2017 interview. “Joe understood black people, poor people, all of them.”
Biden also likes to talk about cornpop at the same pool and how he confronted a gang leader because he wasn’t wearing a swim cap.
According to his version of events in 2019, the epic confrontation involved Cornpop, who was armed with a rusty straight-edge razor, and Biden, who had a six-foot chain wrapped around his hand.
Cooler heads will eventually prevail when Biden apologizes for calling corn pop “Esther.” Because an apology always works after you threaten a razor-wielding gang leader.
This is, well, a story. Incredibly, he told the story while surrounded by children by the pool.
“Cornpop is a bad guy.”#BidenHarris2024 #Biden pic.twitter.com/ALap0Pzsmu
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hairy legs lifeguard
Incidentally, this corn pop video is from the same event where Biden tells the crowd at the poolside how kids love playing with his hairy legs.
I hope this is something I make up for.
“I was sitting in the stands and it was getting hotter and hotter, and my legs were so hairy that they turned blond in the sun,” he said. “The kids used to come up, reach into the pool, rub my leg, make it straighten, and watch the hair grow back. They would watch.
“So, I learned about cockroaches, I learned about kids jumping on my lap, and I love having kids jumping on my lap.”
This can’t be real life…
— Murtaugh (@TimMurtaugh) December 1, 2019
It’s worth noting that the media saw such a video in 2019 but only publicly questioned his cognitive abilities in recent weeks.
