From February 2017 to April 2019, Biden had the title of “honorary professor” at the prestigious university.
While speaking to a crowd in New Mexico on Thursday, President Biden claimed to be a professor now that he is no longer in office.
To emphasize the amount of time he has spent with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Biden casually made the remark.
“More than any other international leader, I’ve spent time with China’s Xi Jinping. After serving as a professor for four years and as vice president for eight, I’m back in the Oval Office as president. “The President, Joe Biden, made this statement.
As part of a four-state, three-day campaign tour to help Democrats in difficult contests in reliably blue California, Illinois, and New Mexico, and in battleground Pennsylvania, the president spoke at Central New Mexico Community College in Albuquerque about his student loan reduction proposal.
This past Thursday wasn’t the first time he’s flaunted his fake credentials as a former professor at Penn.
In his post-Presidential career, Biden has been honored with the position of Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
Snopes investigated Biden’s claim to have been a professor in the past, and in April 2022, they concluded that “this job was honorary.” Biden earned around $900,000 during his time in the honorary position. About a dozen seminars and lectures were all he ever taught, not even a complete semester. In addition, he had no research or administrative duties.
Penn additionally made Biden a Senior Fellow at the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy during his term as an honorary Franklin Fellow.
University officials announced in April 2019 that Biden would be taking an “unpaid leave of absence from his employment at the Penn Biden Center” to focus on his presidential campaign.