President Biden told the Polish president that he wanted to add a suffix to his name so that he would feel good in the company of Polish immigrants. Biden wanted to be called ‘Bidensky’. “Everyone in town was Polish or Italian. I grew up feeling that my name didn’t end in ‘Ski,'” he said
President Biden joked with his Polish counterpart while visiting Warsaw, he said he wanted to add a “ski” or “o” to his last name to resemble a Polish last name, since he lives in Delaware with a large population of Poles and Italians and wanted to blend in between the cultures.
Biden, 80, who was in Warsaw to mark the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, spoke yesterday after his meeting with Polish President Andrzej Duda about his family’s history.
“As a young man, I was born in a coal town in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in northeastern Pennsylvania, in an Irish Catholic neighborhood. And then when coal was no longer relevant, we moved to Delaware, to a town called Claymont, which was a working-class town,” Biden said. “But everyone in town was Polish or Italian. I grew up feeling bad that my name didn’t end in ‘ski’ or ‘o’.”
His words were similar to what he has said in the past about his history with other national ethnic racial groups or minorities. Last October, Biden told a crowd in Puerto Rico that “I grew up in the Puerto Rican community at home” — despite the fact that only about 2,000 people of Puerto Rican descent lived in Delaware when Both Began his political career in the early 1970s.
Biden said in September 2021 to Jewish leaders that he remembers that he “spent” and “went” to the “Tree of Life” synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018 after the worst anti-Semitic attack in US history, in which 11 people were murdered. But people The Masru Synagogue he never visited there, and the White House responded that the president meant About a phone call he made in 2019 to the rabbi of the synagogue.
In January of last year, Biden told college students in Atlanta that he had been arrested several times while protesting for civil rights — another claim with no evidence. During his presidential campaign, Biden claimed he “grew up in the black church politically” and was an organizer of black civil rights demonstrations at a young age at the Union Church in Wilmington. However, church members later claimed that Biden never attended prayers or participated in organizing protests as a teenager.