According to a New York Times article, “President Trump has mentioned President Biden 316 times in fifty days, mostly to blame him for things.”

A closer look, however, shows that Trump isn’t the first president to blame Joseph Biden for all of his mistakes.

• George Washington – “I cannot tell a lie. It was Joe Biden who chopped down the cherry tree.”
• William Henry Harrison – “But I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free of Joe Biden.”
• Zachary Taylor – “It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe – or a prostrate Joe.”
• Abraham Lincoln – “You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time – except Joe Biden.”
• Grover Cleveland – “Above all, tell the truth – and I’m talking to you, Joe Biden.”
• Theodore Roosevelt – “Speak softly, but not as softly as Joe Biden.”
• Calvin Coolidge – “The business of America is none of Joe Biden’s business.”
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt – “The only thing we have to fear is Joe Biden himself.”
• Richard Nixon – “I am not a crook. Joe Biden? I’m not so sure.”
• William Jefferson Clinton – “I did not have sex with that Joe Biden”

Comedy writer Ben Alper has written for Jay Leno, David Letterman and others. He is the author of “Live From the Beginning of Time: Late Night Comedy Monologues Through the Ages”