President Biden has a long history of trying to identify with different ethnicities and cultures.
Biden reminded White House guests attending Greece’s Independence Day celebrations this week of his claim to have inherited the nickname “Biden Opulos” from his home state of Delaware.
He attributed his early political success to the Greek community, Mr. Biden said: He said, “One of the things I learned early on was that I had a very close relationship with the Greek American community, really, in my heart, I mean, in the real sense, and with the church there. That’s what it meant.”
Biden said during his 1972 Senate campaign that he believed “every Greek American in Delaware voted for me.”
“By the way, as some of you Delawareans say, I’ve been given a nickname here that I’m very proud of. I’m Joe ‘Biden Opolos.’ That’s the nickname I got,” he said.
This wasn’t the first time Biden mentioned his Greek nickname. At a White House event in 2009, then-Vice President Biden said he was an “honorary Greek.”
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President Biden speaks on Greek Independence Day in the East Room of the White House on April 4, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Biden’s remarks to Greek Americans gathered in the East Room of the White House are consistent with previous attempts to associate himself with ethnic groups and communities around the world.
In September 2022, during a reception at the White House to celebrate the Jewish New Year, Biden told a group of Jewish Americans gathered for Rosh Hashana that he was more likely to “go to shul” than they were. “It was,” he said. Shul means synagogue in Yiddish.
At the time, Biden pointed to the rabbi in Wilmington, Delaware, and said, “You all think I’m kidding. He can tell you I’m not kidding. I’m not kidding.” he said, eliciting laughter.
“I’m a devout Catholic, but I go to church services on Saturdays and Sundays,” he added. Biden later reaffirmed that he was not joking about the statement.
Biden has also claimed to have been nurtured by the Puerto Rican community during his presidency.
While discussing the response and recovery efforts to Hurricane Fiona, which occurred in Puerto Rico in October 2022, Biden declares He said he “kind of grew up politically in the Puerto Rican community back home.”
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President Biden speaks in Ponce, Puerto Rico, on October 3, 2022, in the aftermath of Hurricane Fiona. Surrounded by First Lady Jill Biden (right) and Puerto Rico Governor Pedro Pierluisi. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
Biden also asserted at the time that Delaware has “a relatively large number of Puerto Ricans compared to our population.”
Mr. Biden has sought to advance his relationship with black American voters in recent years by claiming he is “from the black community.”
“In terms of support, I come from the Black community,” Biden said during a presidential primary debate in November 2019. “Before I knew it, more and more people in the black community were supporting me. They were speaking up for me because they knew.”I, they know who I am. I am. ”
“I never said, ‘I’m black,'” Biden said a few months later, responding to criticism of his comments. But I’d like to say one thing: I’ve spent my entire career working with the black community. ”
Months later, in May 2020, Biden went on to argue that if Black voters were unsure whether to support him or his political opponent, Donald Trump, they were “not Black.” .he later I withdrew that commentclaimed that he “should not have been so wise” or “so reckless.”
But that’s not all. Biden, who was born in Philadelphia and moved to Delaware at age 10, has sought to connect with his Italian and Polish communities by touting his Irish ancestry and Catholic religion.
President Biden meets virtually with Michael Martin, then leader of Ireland, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 17, 2022. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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Biden said in 2020 that he grew up in “a predominantly Irish Catholic community in Scranton, Pennsylvania” and “a predominantly Italian-Polish community in Claymont, Delaware.” .
Biden’s ties to Ireland are something he frequently mentions.
“We Irish are the only people who are nostalgic for the future,” Biden said in 2021, ahead of a virtual meeting with then-Ireland leader Michael Martin.
