[NY Post] President Biden shocked viewers of his Friday speech to teachers when he recognized an audience member and told the crowd, "She was 12, I was 30."Biden lit up social media with the confounding and seemingly inappropriate aside. He did not say what he did when he was 30 and the woman was a preteen.
"You gotta say hi to me," Biden said mid-speech at the National Education Association headquarters in DC. "We go back a long way. She was 12, I was 30. But anyway, this woman helped me get an awful lot done."
The audience of teachers and union members laughed and cheered at the bawdy remark.
The White House did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for clarification on what the president meant.
Biden’s historical habit of touching and smelling women and girls in public — often yielding on-camera grimaces from recipients — earned him the Republican nickname "Creepy Joe," though he has rarely committed such actions in public since apologizing in 2019 to women who said he made them uncomfortable with unwanted physical contact.