Biden also defended the free press, told some new jokes about being considered old, and said absolutely nothing about Elon Musk or Twitter
Biden also told some new jokes about being considered old, and said absolutely nothing about Elon Musk. Photo: Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images The White House Correspondents’ Dinner returned from its two-year pandemic hiatus on Saturday night, complete once again with a singing and dancing U.S. president, following Donald Trump’s administration-length boycott of the annual event. “This is the first time the president has attended this dinner in six years,” commented President Biden .
Both Biden and Noah also acknowledged the quite-real risk of COVID transmission at the event, though the setup of Biden’s joke on the matter could also be interpreted as an echo of the annual bemoaning that the event exists at all: “Tonight we come here to answer a very important question in everybody’s mind: Why in the hell are we still doing this?”
The president used the rest of his speech to celebrate the free press and underline the importance of journalism to democracy. Biden championed the journalists working in Ukraine and particularly those who have been killed during the war.
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