WASHINGTON — President Biden said Monday that his favorite memory of his time in the White House has been his grandchildren “sneaking up” and “jumping in bed with us.”
The 81-year-old president, whose grandchildren are mostly legal adults, shared the bizarre reflection in an interview with Al Roker for NBC’s “Today” show ahead of the annual White House Easter Egg Roll.
“As far as your memory of this house … what are your favorite memories about this place?” Roker asked Biden.
“Our kids jumping in bed with us,” Biden initially replied, before correcting himself.
“Our grandkids, when they’re down here, just sneaking up and jumping in bed with us,” the president said. “That’s my favorite memory here. They love it.
“They love wandering through the halls. They love — there are two floors upstairs, a lot of bedrooms, it’s a private residence,” Biden went on. “And they just love coming down.”
Biden has seven grandchildren, six of whom he has met and five of whom are over the age of 18.
Attorney Naomi Biden, 30, is Biden’s eldest grandchild and lived at the White House briefly ahead of her November 2022 wedding to Peter Neal.
Four more of Biden’s grandkids — Finnegan, Maisy, Natalie and Hunter — are between the ages of 18 and 23.
The sixth, first son Hunter Biden’s four-year-old Beau, is frequently seen with the president in public, including ahead of a family vacation over Easter weekend to Camp David in Maryland.
Last July, Biden publicly recognized a seventh grandchild after receiving sustained criticism for repeatedly saying in public he had only six grandkids.
Navy Joan, whose father is Hunter Biden, turns six in August and has not yet met her grandfather. The president’s son fought in court to bar his daughter from taking the Biden family name.
When asked what Easter meant to him by a reporter during the Easter Egg Roll, the president replied, “a time for forgiveness and people getting together — and a little bit of love and no phoniness, be straight with people.”
Biden has a long habit of telling personal anecdotes in an attempt to relate to his audiences, some of which don’t add up upon closer inspection.
The president has claimed he presented his uncle with a Purple Heart, for which there is no record, and said repeatedly that Delaware firefighters saved first lady Jill Biden from a house fire that the local fire department dismissed as a minor kitchen blaze.
