This week, while Biden was leaving Air Force One, a viral Twitter post asked why he had been pictured leaving the aircraft with a “little boy.”
The Claim:
The tweet by user @ProudElephantUS, posted Thursday, included a video viewed 1.5 million times. The tweet read: “What was Joe Biden doing with this little boy coming down the Air Force One stairs with him that is dressed in a girls romper?”
What was Joe Biden doing with this little boy coming down the Air Force One stairs with him that is dressed in a girls romper?
— Proud Elephant 🇺🇸🦅 (@ProudElephantUS) March 16, 2023
https://t.co/0SYRTGXtk0
The Facts:
The tone of this message feeds into a stream of false, conspiratorial narratives claiming that Biden has abused children. The implication is that his appearance with this “little boy” was unusual or should be treated suspiciously.
Not only is that narrative completely false but so is the claim that the president was with a “boy” in the first place.
The person pictured with Biden in the video is Natalie Biden, his granddaughter, who flew to Nevada with her grandfather as he met with Democratic leaders to discuss lowering prescription drug costs, KSNV-TV, an NBC affiliate in Las Vegas, reported.
Natalie, 18, is the daughter of the president’s late son Beau Biden and Hallie Biden.
Whatever the reason for making this claim, which is cruel to both Bidens, the fact that the young person is Natalie is easily verifiable since multiple news reports identified her.
The president also brought his granddaughter to San Diego as he signed a nuclear submarine deal with the U.K. and Australia, reported the Daily Mail.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about Natalie’s appearance on Air Force One on Monday.
“So Natalie Biden is on—as you know, the president’s family tends to travel with him, right?—pretty often. So that’s not uncommon,” Jean-Pierre said.
“Natalie is on spring break. And so she joined her—she wanted to spend time with her pop. So she joined her pop on this trip.”
Jean-Pierre was unable to answer a further question about whether the president or members of his family reimbursed the government for travel expenses.
Natalie has been seen on multiple occasions with her grandfather on presidential engagements, including appearing at a press gaggle (an informal briefing) in June 2022.
Newsweek has contacted the White House via email for comment.
The Ruling:
False.
The person in the photo is not a “little boy”— it is Joe Biden‘s granddaughter Natalie. The video shared on Twitter was filmed in Nevada as the president arrived to talk to Democratic leaders about lowering prescription drug costs. The two were also seen together in San Diego, where Biden met with U.K. and Australian leaders.
Natalie has been photographed with her grandfather during presidential engagements on multiple occasions.
For all these idiots that have nothing better to do than criticize get over it and get a life
There is not a low bar than Republican propagandist are not willing to cross to enrage people.
Amazing how these new MAGA crowd and their masters are starting to mimic the acts of NAZIS
Let us not forget the Nazi’s were socialists, so who is more and more like Nazi’s?
The nazi is the Biden clan.You enjoy joes gaslighting!
I do agree that these little smear pieces are totally out of line.
But lest you forget – and I’m not a Trump fan – the Dems went after Trump with everything they could, TRUE OR NOT. I found it embarrassing. And they never got anywhere. And that’s not “Trumpers sticking together”. If there was some merit, something would have come out. Every side uses dirty tactics.
Saying Conservatives are playing nasty is the “pot calling the kettle black”. Pelosi saying The Press “isn’t selling COVID enough”. NOT MSM’s JOB. Fauci lying through his teeth … please. Keeping Joe Down Below was the topper.
I do agree with another comment – Nazis were Socialists – National Socialist German Workers’ Party. They used propaganda and Thought Police, and GROOMED their Hitler Youth.
From your frequent and interesting comments, you of all people should know history. And learn from it. Just because you’re on The Dem’s side does not make them 100% right. I left a while ago, NEVER to go back.