Readers know that President Joe Biden is the most Polish-Jewish-Black-Puerto Rican-Greek-Irish-Catholic president that we have ever had. Yet did you know that he’s also a profound “student” of Persian culture?
Biden made this groundbreaking remark at the White House’s celebration of Nowruz, the Persian New Year, on Monday. The president and First Lady Jill Biden used the occasion to honor Iranian culture and the women fighting for freedom in the Islamic state. That’s a worthy cause to be sure, but Biden couldn’t help himself from telling one of those “tall tales” for which he’s known in what appeared to be an attempt to connect with his audience.
“The Persian culture is amazing,” Biden said after several musical performances.
“As a student of Persian culture,” he continued, which appeared to catch the attention of his wife. “Not as a practitioner, but as a student, it’s incredible where the world is and where the world would have been without the Persian…