At the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner on Saturday, Joe Biden opened his remarks with a dig at his predecessor, who skipped the annual event for his first three years in office before the 2020 edition was canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Biden was speaking to the White House Correspondents Association.
He noted that he was the first president to come since then-President Barack Obama participated in the event—a charity benefit that funds journalism scholarships—in 2016, and that it was understood why no president attended in the intervening years.
According to him, after two years using Covid, “we had a horrendous pandemic”.
Joe Biden just called President Trump “a horrible plague.”
Reminder: Biden ran on uniting the country. pic.twitter.com/qkJdASyAGt
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 1, 2022
Mr Biden encouraged the audience to imagine if Mr Trump had been persuaded to attend this year’s ceremony instead of the 2011 one, when he was infamously mocked by Mr Obama.
A “genuine coup” had occurred if that had happened, he claimed, ridiculing Trump’s attempt to reverse the election he lost in 2020. Biden also appeared to take a shot at his predecessor, saying that American democracy is not a “reality show.”
When the first US president attended the annual dinner in 1924, Mr. Biden jokingly said, “I just got elected to the Senate.” He also made light of himself, saying, “I just got elected to the Senate” (Mr Biden was elected to the Senate in 1972).
As a dig at Fox News for airing anti-vaccine messages, the president said the audience had to be vaccinated and given booster shots as well.
If you’re an American who’s barely scraping by because of massive inflation, just know that your president thinks that’s hilarious. pic.twitter.com/DD7PTduDEc
— Kyle Martinsen (@KyleMartinsen_) May 1, 2022
“I’m well aware that there are others who wonder if it’s even appropriate for us to be here tonight due to Covid. We’re here, then, to demonstrate to the nation that we’re making progress in combating the pandemic. Additionally, everyone was required to show proof of current vaccinations and boosters. To find out how to do that while you’re at home watching, simply email her favorite Fox News reporter. Everyone has arrived. Vaccined and re-vaccinated!!” Mr. Biden made the following statement.
People were talking about Russia’s war in Ukraine, and Biden said that it was good that people were talking about it. He said: “We’ve seen how strong and brave Ukrainians are because American journalists in this room and your colleagues around the world have shown us. They’re taking their lives into their own hands, and we’ve all seen that.”
It looks like Trump will run again in 2024, so I don’t know why Biden and his democrats are so happy. It’s not over yet. They still don’t like Trump’s tweets and how he revealed the deep state. Biden, on the other hand, is the worst president of all time.
