Cornpop was a nasty dude. However Cornpop apparently has competitors.
Talking on the NAACP Nationwide Conference on Tuesday in Las Vegas, President Biden recalled one in all his greatest associates from his childhood.
That good friend – Richard Smith, the previous president of the NAACP’s Delaware department – was nicknamed ‘Mouse’.
“And one of my best friends, we used to, when I was a lifeguard in the projects, he was a, his name was – nickname was ‘Mouse,’” Biden informed the gang.
WATCH: Biden says his greatest good friend was ’Mouse’ when he was a “lifeguard in the projects.”
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) July 16, 2024
Biden, Mouse, And Cornpop In The Initiatives
President Biden usually likes to speak about his time working as a lifeguard within the initiatives, although it’s debatable as to how a lot avenue cred comes from palling round with a man named ‘Mouse’ and taking over gang members named ‘Cornpop.’
Richard “Mouse” Smith additionally has talked about Biden’s time as “the only white guy” working as a lifeguard within the initiatives in Wilmington, Delaware.
“We showed Joe that we could accept white people,” Smith mentioned in a 2017 interview. “Joe understands black folks, poor folks, all folks.”
Biden additionally likes to speak about Cornpop on the identical pool and the way he confronted the gang chief as a result of he wasn’t sporting a swimming cap.
The epic standoff, in response to his model in 2019, concerned Cornpop armed with a rusty straight-edge razor and Biden with a six-foot chain wrapped round his hand.
Cooler heads would ultimately prevail when Biden apologized for calling Cornpop ‘Esther.’ As a result of apologies at all times work after you’ve threatened a gang chief wielding a razor.
It’s, um, fairly a narrative. It’s mind-boggling that he informed this story whereas surrounded by youngsters on the pool.
“CornPop was a bad dude.”#BidenHarris2024 #Biden pic.twitter.com/ALap0Pzsmu
— ₦₳V𝚜𝚝é𝚟𝚊 🇷🇺 ᴢ (@Navsteva) July 5, 2024
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Lifeguarding With Furry Legs
That Cornpop video, by the way in which, comes from the identical occasion wherein Biden informed the gang on the pool about how youngsters preferred to play together with his furry legs.
I want I used to be making that up.
“I sit on the stand, and it’s getting hot, I’ve got hairy legs that turn — that — that — that turn — um, blonde in the sun,” he mentioned. “And the kids used to come up and reach in the pool and rub my leg down so it was straight and watch the hair come back up again. They’d look at it.”
“So, I learned about roaches, I learned about kids jumping on my lap, and I’ve loved kids jumping on my lap.”
This may’t be actual life…
— Tim Murtaugh (@TimMurtaugh) December 1, 2019
It’s exceptional that the media noticed clips like this in 2019 however solely simply now in current weeks are overtly questioning about his cognitive talents.