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Biden Claims He Drove Tractor-Trailers, Went to Israel During Six-Day War, Calls CVS “CVC,” Sends People to Wrong Vaccine Website
This compilation from late November and early December 2021 captures a series of Biden statements that drew scrutiny for their accuracy and coherence. During a visit to Minnesota on December 2, Biden repeated his claim that he “used to drive a tractor-trailer” and told a story about visiting Israel during the Six-Day War to serve as a “liaison” with the Egyptians — a claim that did not align with his known biography. He also misdirected Americans to the wrong vaccine website, referred to CVS pharmacy as “CVC,” claimed rapid COVID tests “weren’t on the market” when he took office, forgot the third reason he ran for president, insulted a reporter’s question about a potential government shutdown, repeated that Build Back Better was “fully paid for” despite the CBO’s $367 billion deficit finding, and shook hands maskless one day after telling Americans to wear masks indoors. Vice President Harris also repeated that Build Back Better was “paid for” and wouldn’t raise taxes on anyone under $400,000, and climate envoy John Kerry called for “phasing out coal plants five times faster.”
The Tractor-Trailer Claim
While visiting Minnesota, Biden told workers: “I used to drive a tractor-trailer.” When an audience member responded enthusiastically — “Oh, awesome” — Biden added context: “I know a little bit about driving big trucks. No, that’s great. But anyway, I only did it for part of the summer.”
He then added: “But I got my license.”
The tractor-trailer claim had become one of Biden’s recurring stories, but fact-checkers had been unable to verify it. Biden did not appear to hold a commercial driver’s license, and no public record supported the claim that he had driven an 18-wheeler, even for part of a summer. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, whom Biden had courted with the story on previous occasions, had not corroborated the anecdote.
The qualification — “only part of the summer” and “I got my license” — appeared to be Biden’s attempt to scale the claim down to a defensible level, but the core assertion remained unverified.
The Six-Day War Story
Biden told a story about visiting Israel that raised immediate questions about his timeline. “I was saying to a couple of younger members of my staff before I came over, but many times I’ve been to Israel, I said, not all of a sudden I realized, God, you’re getting old like that,” Biden began.
He continued: “I have known every Prime Minister well since Golda Meir, including Golda Meir. And in the Six-Day War, I had an opportunity to…” He described being invited by Meir “because I was going to be the liaison between she and the Egyptians, but Suez and so on and so forth.”
The Six-Day War took place in June 1967. Biden was 24 years old at the time and had just graduated from Syracuse University College of Law. He had not yet been elected to any public office — he would not be elected to the Senate until 1972. The notion that a 24-year-old law school graduate with no government position would serve as a “liaison” between the Israeli Prime Minister and the Egyptians during an active military conflict was difficult to reconcile with his known biography.
Additionally, Golda Meir did not become Prime Minister until 1969 — two years after the Six-Day War. The story as Biden told it contained multiple factual inconsistencies that no one in the room corrected.
The Wrong Website and “CVC”
While reading from a teleprompter about the COVID booster campaign, Biden made two errors in quick succession. He told Americans to visit “vaccines.com” for information about where to get vaccinated. The correct government website was vaccines.gov — a .com address could lead users to a private or commercial site rather than the official government resource.
Biden also mispronounced the name of the pharmacy chain CVS, calling it “CVC.” He said: “Pharmacies will send millions of texts and emails to remind their customers to return for the booster shots because they know who got the booster shot at CVC.”
The combination of errors — referring to one of the nation’s largest pharmacy chains by the wrong name while directing people to an incorrect website — raised questions about Biden’s command of the details in his own public health messaging.
Rapid Tests “Not on the Market”
Biden claimed credit for the availability of at-home COVID tests: “I used the Defense Production Act to increase production of rapid tests, including at-home tests. When I came in office, none of these tests were on the market.”
The statement was disputed. The FDA had issued the first emergency use authorization for an at-home COVID rapid test — the Ellume COVID-19 Home Test — in December 2020, before Biden took office on January 20, 2021. While the availability and distribution of at-home tests expanded significantly under Biden’s administration, the claim that “none of these tests were on the market” when he took office was not accurate.
The Forgotten Third Reason
In a separate appearance, Biden began listing his reasons for running for president and lost track midway through. “When I ran for president, I said I was running for three reasons. One, to restore the soul of the country, to restore some decency. And two, to rebuild the backbone of the country. Hardworking middle-class folks and working-class folks who built the country.”
He then transitioned into a broader discussion about the middle class without ever stating the third reason. The moment was reminiscent of other instances where Biden had started numbered lists and failed to complete them.
Build Back Better: The Continuing Claim
Biden and Harris both continued to assert that Build Back Better was “fully paid for” during this period. Biden stated: “The first major piece of legislation in more than a decade is not only fully paid for, based on official estimates from the Congressional Budget Office, the Joint Committee on Taxation, the Treasury Department, it’s going to generate more than $100 billion in deficit reduction this decade.”
The video contrasted this with the CBO’s actual finding: a net increase in the deficit totaling $367 billion over the 2022-2031 period. Biden’s claim that CBO “agrees with what I said” was directly followed by the CBO’s contradicting language.
Biden also went after the Trump tax cuts: “They added $8 trillion to the national debt with the Trump tax cut.” He argued that critics of Build Back Better’s fiscal impact had not expressed similar concern about the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
Kerry’s climate statement added another dimension: “We have to be phasing out coal plants five times faster than we are.” The comment echoed the administration’s aggressive climate timeline at a moment when energy prices were already a major political vulnerability.
The Mask and the Reporter
Biden announced an extension of the mask mandate and then was caught violating it — shaking hands without a mask one day after telling Americans to wear masks indoors. When a reporter shouted a question about a potential government shutdown, Biden responded dismissively: “How could you ask such a silly question?”
The exchange reinforced the pattern that had characterized Biden’s relationship with the press: selectively engaging with questions, dismissing ones he found inconvenient, and relying on prepared lists of reporters to call upon.
Key Takeaways
- Biden claimed he “used to drive a tractor-trailer” (unverified by any public record), said he went to Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War as a “liaison” between Golda Meir and the Egyptians (Meir didn’t become PM until 1969 and Biden was a 24-year-old law school graduate), and forgot the third reason he ran for president.
- He directed Americans to “vaccines.com” instead of the correct vaccines.gov, called CVS pharmacy “CVC” while reading from a teleprompter, and claimed no at-home rapid COVID tests “were on the market” when he took office despite FDA authorizing the first one in December 2020.
- Biden repeated that Build Back Better was “fully paid for” while the CBO scored it at a $367 billion deficit increase, shook hands maskless a day after telling Americans to mask up indoors, and dismissed a reporter’s government shutdown question as “silly” while Kerry called for phasing out coal plants “five times faster.”