Biden suggests he was vice president during COVID-19 pandemic: 'Barack said to me, go to Detroit' | 20 May 2024 | Joe Biden appeared to claim he was vice president during the coronavirus pandemic and that former President Barack Obama had dispatched him to Detroit to help with the response. In comments first reported by the New York Post, Biden addressed an NAACP campaign event in Michigan Sunday night, where he repeatedly railed against his presumptive Republican opponent, former President Trump, while offering an aside about the contagion -- which began in 2019 while the latter was in office. "When I was vice president, things were kind of bad during the pandemic," Biden said near the beginning of his remarks. "And, what happened was Barack said to me: 'Go to Detroit – help fix it.'" [LOL! Will the WEF replace this impaired lunatic before the election?]