Joe Biden gave a rare commitment to his English roots on Wednesday to show that he had not advertised his connections to Great Britain.
The President gave a speech at Ulster University on his whistle stop tour through Belfast, before leaving a three-day trip south of the border, where he would explore his Irish heritage, and joked, British friends had told him that he was really English.
Mr. Biden said that as Vice President he lived next to the British ambassador, which he did not call. He said, during the last trip of the ambassador, before returning to Washington to end his term in office, he brought a gift from Great Britain and claimed that the President was English.
"He brought a book with a photo on the front of a somewhat stocky British captain in his district with a bulldog that was sitting next to him," said Mr. Biden.
"His name was Captain George Biden and he always fooled me and said that they know that bidges are English, they talk about the Irish, bidges are English. He told me that he had gone back and that Lord Admiralty had checked and my great -great -grandfather had written the rules of the mutiny for the British Navy. I said, at least this part is consistent."
Mr. Biden also said that he had found that his second first name had a connection to Great Britain and Nottingham in the Midlands.
"But he always fooled me when I talked about the Irish, he said: 'You are English, think about it.' Then I found the name Robinette - my second first name is Robinette - I thought all the years that it was French. It must have been Huguenots, because in the 17th century they came somewhere on the way to Great Britain, so I don't know what to do, so Teufel is going on here. ”
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