Did Joe Biden grow up in a Polish or Puerto Rican community?

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U.S. President Joe Biden’s upbringing is beginning to sound like the United Nations.

Biden, who previously said he grew up in a Puerto Rican neighbourhood, was in Poland on Monday where he boasted about his connections to the country to President Andrzej Duda, saying his childhood home was in a Polish community.

The two leaders had met to discuss the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine as the one-year anniversary nears.

“I was, as a young man, I was born in a coal town of Scranton, Pennsylvania, northeastern Pennsylvania, in an Irish-Catholic neighborhood,” Biden told reporters. “Then when coal died, we moved down to Delaware, to a town called Claymont, Delaware, which was a working-class town, but everybody in town was either Polish or Italian.”

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He added: “I grew up feeling self-conscious my name didn’t end in an ‘s-k-i’ or an ‘o.’

(Watch out, Italy, you’re next.)

His comments confused many on the Internet since the President had previously said he grew up in a Puerto Rican community.

In October, Biden visited Puerto Rico after it was hit by Hurricane Fiona where he expressed his support and fondness for the people.

“We have a very … large Puerto Rican population in Delaware,” he said at the time, according to Fox News. “I was sort of raised in the Puerto Rican community at home, politically. We came here for a long time as part of both business and pleasure. I’m committed to this island.”

Newsbusters director Jorge Bonilla joked, “Biden betrays the Puerto Rican neighborhood of his youth, pines for Polish-sounding last name.”

Actor Dean Cain tweeted, “I thought he was Puerto Rican, and raised [in] a black church?”

Journalist Tom Elliott replied, “For those who haven’t been paying attention, Biden is half half Puerto Rican, half black, half Jewish, half Republican, half Polish, half Italian, and half coal miner.”

Earlier this year, while celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, Biden repeated his 2020 claims that he used to attend a Black church during the civil rights movement.

“Let’s lay one thing to rest. I may be a practicing Catholic, but (I) used to go to 7:30 mass every morning in high school and then in college before I went to the Black church,” Biden reiterated.

“Not a joke.”