Biden lauds Satchel Paige as a "great Negro"

President Joe Biden referred to legendary pitcher Satchel Paige as a “great Negro” while delivering Veterans Day remarks at Arlington National Cemetery.

Biden was honoring former U.S. Ambassador Donald Blinken, an Army veteran and father of Secretary of State Antony Blinken, when he launched into a story about Paige, who played in the "Negro leagues" before moving to Major League Baseball in the late 1940s, Fox News reported.

"I’ve adopted the attitude of the great Negro at the time, pitcher of the Negro leagues, who went on to become a great pitcher in the pros — in Major League Baseball — after Jackie Robinson. His name was Satchel Paige," Biden recalled.

Eric Trump was quick to take to Twitter to question Biden, writing, “Did Biden just say what I think he said?!"

President Biden refers to baseball legend Satchel Paige as “the great negro at the time."

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But even conservatives came out in the president’s defense.  

“Joe Biden was clearly referring to the “Negro Leagues” as in for Baseball. If we hate Leftists dishonesty we also must hate dishonesty amongst ourselves,” wrote Evan Cooney.

At Arlington Cemetery, Biden went on to honor our nation’s fallen heroes – and also took a moment to remember Colin Powell, the retired general who he said “earned the universal respect of the Americans and people for his leadership in uniform and out."