Social media users shared posts online with an incoherent quote on how to teach a man to fish attributed to President Joe Biden. There is no evidence that Biden made this remark.
Examples can be seen here and here.
The quote reads: “Buy a man who eats fish, he day, learns fisherman, for a lifetime. – Joe Biden ”
The quote seems to be a confusing version of the famous quote: “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him a lifetime.”
The reports show that Biden is portrayed as confused, incoherent or unintelligent.
While some users comment and claim that the messages are satire, other comments on the messages are as follows: “Words spoken from a dementia.” .. ”.
Reuters could not find any record of Biden saying this quote. A Google search did not return any messages about Biden.
The quotes do not exist on Biden’s Twitter pagetwitter.com/POTUS and twitter.com/JoeBidenor in ProPublica’s “Politwoops” archive, which follows deleted tweets from public officials here.
The quote was shared without assigning Biden, examples here and here.
Fact Checkers USA Today, Associated Press, PolitiFact and Check Your Fact also concluded that the quote was not made here, here, here and here by Biden.
Reuters Fact Check had earlier processed videos of Biden to make him look confused or struggling to speak here and here.
VERDICT
Untrue. There is no report that President Joe Biden made the quote in the posts.
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