U.S. President Joe Biden wore a hard hat backwards during a photo op with union construction workers in Superior‚ Wisconsin. Rating: True Editor's Note: We received a ton of comments in a very short time challenging our assumption that wearing a hard hat "backwards" means wearing it with the bill facing to the rear‚ and "forwards" means wearing it bill to the front. On the basis of that assumption‚ we originally rated the claim that Biden was wearing a hard hat backwards as false.