Joe Biden once again sent me in search of malarkey. It is a word only Joe uses.

The word is a throwback that modern day politicians do not ordinarily utter.

It may stem from an ancient Greek word, or it comes from old English, or it is simply old American, like Joe Biden. Nobody really knows.

While today’s politicians may accuse their opponent of talking blather, bunk or bull, they do not call the bull they utter malarkey. Only Joe does.

Biden brought malarkey up again during his disastrous debate Thursday night with Donald Trump, a man he accused of, among other things, being full of it.

Joe Biden is in such a fog and so out of it that he ought to present America with a Fourth of July gift next Thursday by announcing he was stepping aside and won’t seek reelection.

There is no way Biden can stand for another debate with Trump and then be helped off the stage by his wife Jill or by Barack Obama.

The Democrats need to conduct a political intervention with Biden and come up with another candidate.

The whole world, including our adversaries in Russia, China, Iran and North Korea watched Joe Biden implode. It was a sorry sight.

Biden’s weak and pathetic performance is practically an invitation for Communist China to invade Tawain, or for Iran to attack Israel.

The country is in trouble with Biden at the helm. And that’s no malarkey.

Hardly had he uttered the word in the debate than I got an email from Joe repeating what he said about Trump and asking for a $25 campaign contribution.

“Peter, I have to tell you this,” Joe’s email said. “I have never heard so much malarkey in my whole life.

“I’m not kidding. Every single thing Donald Trump said is a lie. Every single one.”

His remarks sent me back in time to the last period when Biden used the term. It was during his campaign for the Democrat 2020 presidential nomination, which he won.

Campaigning in Iowa in 2020 Biden crossed the state in his “No Malarkey” bus, telling voters he would always level with them. They are still waiting, as are we.

He also used the term in 2012 when he ran for reelection as President Barack Obama’s vice president, calling Benghazi cover up reports “a bunch of malarkey.”  The corrupt establishment media went along with him.

When he rode his “No Malarkey” bus in Iowa in 2020, before he took on President Trump, Biden was only running against fellow Democrats Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg.

And when he faced a left-wing media savaged Trump and beat him in the 2020 November election, Biden successfully campaigned out of his basement in his Wilmington, Del. home as a half-hidden candidate because of the COVID pandemic.

COVID is gone and Trump has come roaring back, stronger than ever while Biden is stumbling talking malarkey, looking weaker and more confused than ever. And he has no place to hide.

So, rechecking my earlier search for the origins and meaning of malarkey, I found that few people even knew what the word meant, even though some people have it as a name.

One guy I talked to said he thought malarkey was something he ordered at a Greek restaurant. Another said it was Hungarian cabbage soup. One young man said it was code for a strong strain of Bolivian marijuana. His buddy said malarkey was a town in Ireland. A woman at a bar said it was a vodka cocktail.

They are all wrong. I found malarkey.

Malarkey, sad to say, is what Joe Biden and his presidency has been all about. And that’s no malarkey.

Peter Lucas is a veteran political reporter. Email him at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com

First lady Jill Biden, right, hugs President Joe Biden at the conclusion of a presidential debate with Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump hosted by CNN, Thursday, June 27, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)