The president and the jokes are back, and the masks are gone, for the return of the White House Correspondents ’Gala Dinner on Saturday night in Washington, where Joe Biden made a joke while pointing out Russia.
I am very happy to be here tonight with the only group of Americans whose popularity rating is lower than mine.first launched the Democrat at the beginning of his speech.
And to mock his Republican predecessor Donald Trump, who never showed up at the party, he noticed that the past few years have been difficult.
” We had a horrible plague followed by two years of COVID. “
Joe Biden then adopted a more serious tone, paying tribute to journalists covering the war in Ukraine and warning about the poison that is spreading in our democracy […] with disinformation rising sharply.
You, the free press, are more important than in the last century.he pointed out.
And to pass the floor to the head of the ceremonies, comedian Trevor Noah, he launched: Trevor, the really good news is you can now deceive the president of the United States..
” And unlike in Moscow, you won’t go to jail. “
The comedian began by saying he was honored to be the master of ceremonies of the most well -known supercontagious event in the country. A reference to the fact that the gala was done without a mask, even though vaccination was required there.
Joe Biden, 79, was naked, but he did not attend the meal, as a precaution. Its vice president Kamala Harris was declared positive for the coronavirus last week.
The journalists it has been so hard on you, that I cannot understandlaunched Trevor Noah to the attention of the head of state. Because you’re in power, things are going up – you know, gas is high, rent is high, food is up. Everything.
Mr. Biden laughed, putting on a good face and trying to identify himself as much as possible with Donald Trump, the only president since 1980 to skip the traditional night built in 1924, organized by the association of journalists who recognized in the White House (WHCA).
Washington’s political and media elite remembers Obama’s years, especially in 2011, when he targeted Donald Trump for his taste for conspiracy theories.
Once in power, the Republican president avoids every night of this gala, he regularly attacks journalists, the enemies of the people. In the last edition, in 2019, no president or comedian was there.
This televised dinner was back Saturday night in the American capital after the pandemic and Trump years, without really trendy self -mockery and presidential support in the press.
About 2,600 people in formal clothes, journalists and their guests, attended the Washington Hilton.
Source: Radio-Canada
