The annual White Home correspondents’ dinner was held Saturday through which President Biden was joined by politicians, journalists and celebrities for an election yr roast, with the backdrop of the Israel-Hamas warfare and protests over the battle.
The occasion featured a roast of the president by comic Colin Jost, who additionally made jokes concentrating on the media and Republican politicians, together with former President Trump and Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida.
“Like many of you here tonight, I pretend to do news on TV,” Jost advised the group, referring to his “Saturday Night Live” skit.
A whole bunch of pro-Palestinian protesters exterior the occasion condemned Biden’s assist for Israel and Western media protection of the warfare. This, as anti-Israel protests have been held on U.S. faculty campuses in latest weeks.
President Joe Biden speaks with comic Colin Jost through the White Home Correspondents’ Affiliation (WHCA) dinner in Washington, D.C. (Getty Photos)
Chants of “Shame on you!” and “Free Palestine” had been heard as friends in fits and lengthy attire made their means inside for the dinner. Protesters accused U.S. journalists of not protecting the warfare sufficient and misrepresenting it once they do cowl it.
“Western media we see you, and all the horrors that you hide,” protesters chanted.
Contained in the occasion, Biden, 81, made jokes about his age whereas additionally utilizing the dinner as a possibility to take shots at Trump, his prime challenger for the 2024 presidential election.
“Yes, age is an issue, and I’m a grown man running again a six-year-old,” Biden stated, referring to Trump.
“Look, age is the only thing we have in common. My vice president actually endorses me,” the president added, as former Vice President Mike Pence refuses to endorse his former operating mate.
Biden additionally joked about accusations that Congress is political theater, and took the chance to quote GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado being kicked out of a theater final yr for groping her date.
“Being here is a reminder that folks think what is going on in Congress is political theater,” the president stated. “That is not true. If congress were theater, they’d have thrown out Lauren Boebert a long time ago.”
President Joe Biden stands for the pledge of allegiance through the White Home Correspondents’ Affiliation (WHCA) dinner in Washington, D.C. (Getty Photos)
Media outlets have been extremely important of Biden as of late for not giving interviews to mainstream shops like The New York Occasions or The Wall Road Journal, amongst others. Biden skipped his Tremendous Bowl interview with CBS Information in February after canceling final yr’s Tremendous Bowl interview with Fox Information.
On prime of journalists’ restricted entry to Biden for interviews, he has additionally held fewer press conferences than his predecessors.
As a substitute of giving interviews with conventional information media, Biden has lately sat down with radio host Howard Stern and late evening host Seth Myers.
“To all of my friends in the press, and Fox News, I have higher standards,” Biden stated on Saturday. “I do interviews with strong independent journalists who millions of people actually listen to, like Howard Stern.”
Jost’s roast included mentions of Biden’s age, Trump’s authorized circumstances and unbiased presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s possibilities of profitable the election.
“I didn’t know you were going to show photos of me from high school,” Jost stated. “It’s not really fair. You can’t do it for President Biden because the technology wasn’t invented when he was in high school.”
“How refreshing it is to see a president at an event that doesn’t begin with a bailiff saying all rise?” Jost added. “And, I would like to point out, it is after 10 p.m., Sleepy Joe is still awake. While Trump has spent the past week falling asleep in court every morning.”
President Joe Biden sits by comic Colin Jost through the White Home Correspondents’ Affiliation (WHCA) dinner in Washington, D.C. (Getty Photos)
Jost continued, “The Republican candidate for president owes half a billion in fines for bank fraud and is currently spending his days farting himself awake during a porn star hush money trial and the race is tied? The race is tied. Nothing makes sense anymore.”
Referencing Kennedy Jr.’s stance in opposition to vaccines, Jost joked, “Like his vaccine card says, he doesn’t have a shot.”
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The comic in contrast the accomplishments of Biden and former President Obama, saying, “Obama got [Osama] Bin Laden, you got O.J. [Simpson].”
Jost additionally advised the president that he reminded him of his grandfather.
“Some of your best qualities remind me of his. And, I will say, he was 95, and he was still great at stairs,” Jost stated, referring to situations of Biden falling down on the steps of Air Power One. “I think it is because he didn’t try to run up them.”
