Last night Biden posted a tweet claiming that real wages were higher than they were before the pandemic and, of course, took credit for it.

Biden wrote “Right now, real wages for the average American worker is higher than it was before the pandemic, with lower wage workers seeing the largest gains. That’s Bidenomics.”

But Community Notes quickly fact-checked Biden’s comment and said it was factually wrong: “The tweet’s claim about real wages contains a factual error. On 3/15/20 when US COVID lockdowns began real wages adjusted for inflation (AFI) were $11.15. As of 7/16/23 real wages AFI are $11.05. Real wages AFI remain lower (not higher) than before the pandemic.”

The White House was asked about this fact-check today and their defense of Biden’s comment. Here’s how that went:

KJP responded to the question by only saying “we disagree.” She then tried to immediately go to a different question in a very dismissive way but the reporter asked if she had any other comment. She just said disagreed because they were looking at the data from 2021 or something.

KJP didn’t even attempt to actually substantiate Biden’s comment with facts and figures. Which is not surprising because there is no substantive defense of a lie.