Chants of ‘shame on you’ were heard outside the annual correspondents’ dinner.
President Joe Biden speaks at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner at the Washington Hilton
An evening normally devoted to presidents, journalists and comedians taking outrageous pokes at political scandals and each other this year often seemed to illustrate the difficulty of putting aside the coming presidential election and the troubles in the Middle East and elsewhere. Despite being similar in age, Mr Biden said the two presidential hopefuls have little else in common.
“We have to take this serious – eight years ago we could have written it off as ‘Trump talk’ but not after January 6,” Mr Biden told the audience, referring to the supporters of the Republican who stormed the Capitol after he was dumped from office in 2020.Mr Trump did not attend Saturday’s dinner and never attended the annual banquet as president. In 2011, he sat in the audience and glowered through a roasting by then-president Barack Obama of his reality television celebrity status.
In an evening dedicated in large part to journalism, Ms O’Donnell cited journalists who have been detained across the world, including Americans Evan Gershkovich in Russia and Austin Tice, who is believed to be held in Syria. The families of both men were in attendance, as they have been at previous dinners.To get inside Saturday’s dinner, some guests had to hurry through hundreds of protesters outraged over the mounting humanitarian disaster for Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
Mr Biden’s motorcade took an alternative route from the White House to the Washington Hilton than in previous years, largely avoiding the crowds of demonstrators.
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