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Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson revealed that President Joe Biden told him that his family origins “were not really Irish at all” despite the geriatric career politician’s boasting about his lineage from the Emerald Isle.

While the media attention has been focused on the blarney in favored establishment scribe Bob Woodward’s upcoming book, the ex-Brit leader is also promoting a memoir that has its share of juicy nuggets, including some unflattering details about the seemingly senile Democrat who was overthrown as his own party’s nominee.

In his book titled “Unleashed,” BoJo writes, “He disarmed me completely by saying that his family origins were not really Irish at all, and that the Bidens were an old seafaring family from Kent (which seems plausible, since -den is a common Kentish termination).”

“I suppose he may say something else when in Dublin. But never mind!” Johnson wrote of the private conversation he said occurred during the 2021 G7 summit in Cornwall, England.

“In 2016, I came to Ireland as vice president, bringing most of my family with me — my sister Valerie, my brother Jimmy, my daughter, and my five granddaughters and grandchildren. And my granddaughters are crazy about me, I might add, because I talk to them every single day; I send them a note,” Biden said during a trip to Dublin last year.

“Together, we explored our family history, visiting the Cooley Peninsula — where the Finnegans’s ancestors earned their living on land and in sea — and walking the streets of Ballina, where my great-great-great-grandfather Blewitt lived with his family before relocating in 1851, eventually settling in my hometown of Scranton, Pa.,” he said of his ancestry.

But according to Johnson, it could be blarney. Just like much of what else the teller of tall tales has to say, a master of malarkey.

One foreign dignitary isn’t buying it and takes Biden at his word about his ancestry.

“One question I definitely don’t need clarity from is that Joe Biden considers himself Irish,” said Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris. “I think Boris Johnson is a person who seems to be very good at selling books and I hope he is certainly much better at that than he was at being a politician.”

In his book, Johnson also dished an embarrassing story that Biden took a pass on a tour of the HMS Prince of Wales, a $4.3 billion warship that is the pride of the British Navy, during his visit to jolly old England for the G7.

In excerpts published by The Telegraph in which Johnson and his aides were wondering whether the then 78-year-old Biden was “really as elderly-seeming as his detractors sometimes said,” the former Brit leader explained how the critics were vindicated with what he personally observed in the Democrat’s first trip abroad as president.

“His staff told us that he would not in fact be boarding our vast aircraft carrier — which we had proudly stationed in the bay — because it had so many steps; and we wondered what that meant about his physical fitness,” Johnson wrote in the book.

“Shattering the mold of the traditional political memoir, Unleashed is a candid, unrestrained, and revealing book by Boris Johnson, the Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom,” reads the Amazon description of “Unleashed” which hits bookstores on October 22.

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