Biden Tells NAACP Convention About His Best Friend 'Mouse' From When He Was A Lifeguard In The Projects

Cornpop was a bad dude. But Cornpop apparently has competition.

Speaking at the NAACP National Convention on Tuesday in Las Vegas, President Biden recalled one of his best friends from his childhood.

That friend – Richard Smith, the former president of the NAACP’s Delaware branch – was nicknamed ‘Mouse’.

“And one of my best friends, we used to, when I was a lifeguard in the projects, he was a, his name was – nickname was ‘Mouse,’” Biden told the crowd.

WATCH: Biden says his best friend was ’Mouse’ when he was a “lifeguard in the projects.”

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Biden, Mouse, And Cornpop In The Projects

President Biden often likes to talk about his time working as a lifeguard in the projects, though it’s debatable as to how much street cred comes from palling around with a guy named ‘Mouse’ and taking on gang members named ‘Cornpop.’

Richard “Mouse” Smith also has talked about Biden’s time as “the only white guy” working as a lifeguard in the projects in Wilmington, Delaware.

“We showed Joe that we could accept white people,” Smith said in a 2017 interview. “Joe understands black folks, poor folks, all folks.”

Biden also likes to talk about Cornpop at the same pool and how he confronted the gang leader because he wasn’t wearing a swimming cap.

The epic standoff, according to his version in 2019, involved Cornpop armed with a rusty straight-edge razor and Biden with a six-foot chain wrapped around his hand.

Cooler heads would eventually prevail when Biden apologized for calling Cornpop ‘Esther.’ Because apologies always work after you’ve threatened a gang leader wielding a razor.

It’s, um, quite a story. It is mind-boggling that he told this tale while surrounded by kids at the pool.

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Lifeguarding With Hairy Legs

That Cornpop video, by the way, comes from the same event in which Biden told the crowd at the pool about how kids liked to play with his hairy legs.

I wish I was making that up.

“I sit on the stand, and it’s getting hot, I’ve got hairy legs that turn — that — that — that turn — um, blonde in the sun,” he said. “And the kids used to come up and reach in the pool and rub my leg down so it was straight and watch the hair come back up again. They’d look at it.”

“So, I learned about roaches, I learned about kids jumping on my lap, and I’ve loved kids jumping on my lap.”

This can’t be real life…

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It’s remarkable that the media saw clips like this in 2019 but only just now in recent weeks are openly wondering about his cognitive abilities.