 How could this have happened? So then it was he had a cold. Oh, man, that didn't work out, did it? Because Biden wasn't able to play along with that. You have to be a pretty good actor. If he had a cold the night before, then when they had him come out and read a teleprompter the day after, you'd still have to have that cold, right? Now, some people can fake it. A lot of people fake it when they want to call the boss.