Biden jokes with Polish president about wanting to add ‘ski’ to the end of his name
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President Joe Biden told Polish President Andrzej Duda on Tuesday that he wanted to add ‘ski’ to his name as a child due to growing up around so many Polish immigrants in Delaware.
The joke came during a bilateral meeting with Duda at Warsaw’s Presidential Palace as Biden visits to mark the one-year anniversary of the war in Ukraine.
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“I was born in a coal town of Scranton. … When coal died, we moved to a town called Claymont, which was a working-class town — everybody in town was either Polish or Italian,” Biden said, per the Daily Mail. “I grew up feeling self-conscious that my name didn’t end in a ‘ski’ or an ‘o.'”
That would make his surname “Bidenski” or “Bideno.”
Duda described Biden’s surprise trip to Ukraine as “spectacular,” with Biden then noting his admiration for the Polish.
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“All kidding aside,” Biden said before mentioning the “pride, the overwhelming demonstrable pride, the Polish-Americans feel about Poland, the role it’s playing now.”
Poland has accepted around 1.7 million Ukrainian refugees. Biden also spoke in Warsaw last March, not long after the start of the war.