Commotion: Joe Biden’s Signature
The Claim
President Joe Biden’s signature on executive orders is different from his official signature, thus proving that there are two Bidens.
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The claim went viral following Biden’s inauguration.
Misbar’s Analysis
On every executive order, the president signs his signature. As executive orders can be found and read by the public, many people read them and see Biden’s signature. One such person compared Joe Biden’s signature on Wikipedia to his signature on executive orders (the online encyclopedia has signatures of people of note). The “B,” which some people speculate is the smoking gun, is less choppy in the executive order – thus they are signed by two different people. A few of these people said that there may be “two Bidens.”
It’s unclear exactly what “two Bidens” means, but we’ve written about a similar clone theory before and found it false. We won’t speculate about what else two Bidens implies.
Misbar’s investigation found that the two signatures don’t really look that different. Joe Biden’s signatures on executive orders looks a little simpler, which is probably due to him having signed quite a few executive orders already. He may have used a different pen to write his official published signature, or spent more care making it look nice. There are also plenty of videos showing Biden signing executive orders.
This is, of course, speculation, but there’s nonetheless no reason to assume that a slight change in style means that there are two Bidens.