President Joe Biden on Saturday began his speech at the White House Correspondents Association’s annual dinner with several excavations in his predecessor, who missed the annual event for the first three years of his presidency before the 2020 edition was canceled due to Covid-19. pandemic.
Noting that he was the first CEO to attend the event – a fundraising charity that supports journalism scholarships – since then-President Barack Obama took part in 2016, Mr Biden said it was understandable that neither one president has not been present in recent years.
“We had a terrible plague, followed by two years of Covid,” he said.
Referring to Mr Trump’s presence in the 2011 edition of the event, when he was shamefully mocked by Mr Obama, Mr Biden asked those present to imagine whether Mr Trump had been persuaded to attend this year. .
“Now it would be a real coup if that happened,” he said, mocking Trump’s attempt to undo the election he lost to Biden in 2020.
In another apparent excavation in his predecessor, Mr Biden said American democracy was not a “reality show”.
Mr Biden also spent much of his speech mocking himself, joking that he had “just been elected to the Senate” for the first time when US President Calvin Coolidge attended the annual dinner in 1924 (Mr. Biden was elected to the Senate in 1972).
The president also looked at Fox News, which is hosting anti-vaccine reports, noting that everyone present needs to be vaccinated and strengthened.
“I know there are other questions about whether we should gather here tonight for Covid. Well, we are here to show the country that we are going through this pandemic. In addition, everyone had to prove that they were fully vaccinated and reinforced. So if you’re at home watching this and wondering how to do it, just contact her favorite Fox News reporter. They are all here. Vaccinated and strengthened! ” said Mr. Biden.
More seriously, Mr. Biden declared coverage of Russia’s war against Ukraine. “We have all seen the courage of the Ukrainian people because of the courage of the American reporters in this room and of your colleagues around the world who are in place and taking their lives into their own hands,” Mr Biden said.
“You, the free press, are more important than ever in the last century,” the president added.
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