A video clip has resurfaced from a news conference Joe Biden held in 2022 at a Massachusetts coal-fired power plant. The former president said: “That’s why I and so damn many other people I

Biden’s alarming comments came during a speech about emissions from oil refineries near his childhood home in Claymont, Del., and which he appeared to blame for his cancer.

Biden's health, both physical and mental, was discussed at length during the 2024 presidential election cycle, more recently after excerpts from a new book by CNN 's Jake Tapper and Axios' Alex Thompson, Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, were published by multiple media outlets.

In May 2025, Donald Trump Jr. questioned on X how "Dr. Jill Biden" missed former President Joe Biden's aggressive metastatic cancer. Former U.S. first lady Jill Biden holds a doctorate in education. She is not a medical doctor. Donald Trump Jr. later wrote on X that he meant his comment to be sarcastic.

Adams, 67, said he's always in pain, uses a walker to get around, and that he expects to die sometime this summer.

The president's son suggested there was a cover-up after former president Joe Biden announced his prostate cancer diagnosis.

The book said that the Biden family wanted to keep Beau Biden’s cancer diagnosis a secret and misled the media about his condition.