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Joe Biden, Trevor Noah Speak at the 2022 White House Correspondents’ Dinner – Opinion

By Pluralist / April 30, 2022

Our sister website Townhall.com posted a preview of Saturday’s return to the White House Correspondent Association Dinner.

There would always be some surprises at this event, as with any other live event. However, we were aware of a few things beforehand: Dr. Anthony Fauci will not attend. The President Joe Biden will be giving remarks. Unfunny jokes would be shared solely to entertain the left-leaning media present at the Nerd Prom.

These were the main points that impressed me at The 2022 Dinner. Well, mostly.

There was a bunch of tedious “business” before the speeches everyone showed up to see — Joe Biden and the evening’s host, Daily Show host Trevor Noah. You’ll see why I’m bringing it up in a minute.

The press views the night as a waste of time and a distraction from its incredible virtues. They naturally decided to award awards. You can think of it as their equivalent of the Academy Awards. This was one of those Awards.

Jonathan Karl had to make it clear in his 15-second acceptance speech what January 6th is all about.

It is truly pathetic.

Joe Biden gave approximately 15 minutes worth of remarks. He opened with thanks to “the 42 percent of you who applauded,” in reference to his dismal job approval rating. It was kind of funny. However, Biden immediately began to make a nasty joke about Donald Trump. Biden said that the country had suffered from “a horrible plague, followed by two years of COVID.”

But the crowd showed they weren’t afraid to boo truly dead-on-arrival gags, like him insisting that if Trump had come to this year’s event, “that would have been a real coup.”

Biden had another easy joke for the crowd, saying the Democrats were anticipating having to deal with “gridlock” after the midterms…but “we can work it out during the next six years I’m in office.”

In another bomb of a joke, he recalled Ronald Reagan’s famous quote, “(Mr. Gorbachev), Tear down this wall!” He explained that, for today’s Republicans, it’s “‘Tear down this Mouse’s House,’ and they are coming for Cinderella’s Castle.’”

Near the close of his remarks, Biden did one of his tells that he doesn’t really mean what he’s about to say (and you shouldn’t trust whatever it is). He said, “I give you my word as a Biden” that he’s optimistic about America’s future.

While figuratively handing over the mic to Noah, he quipped that a comedian was going to make jokes at the expense of the leader of the country — and unlike in Russia, he wouldn’t be heading to jail. Har har.

Trevor Noah made a hilarious joke at the start of his remarks. Calling it Washington’s next “super spreader event,” he demanded of the audience, “Did you learn nothing from the Grid Iron Dinner?” He also jokingly pointed out that even Fauci wouldn’t risk it.

But he quickly became a snitch against the Democratic leadership, such as Senator Kyrsten Silena (D-AZ). Noah urged the audience to “give it up” for her — because she has managed to be “openly bisexual, but a closeted Republican.” He also had to make a tired “ramp” joke when roasting Trump in absentia, but the joke was addressed to someone who was in the room — Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis. There were probably four to five jokes directed at him. This is more than any journalist or politician. That tells you something.

Trevor Noah delivered one of his best jokes at Joe Biden. You have to give him credit. He said he finally figured out why he had been chosen as host of this year’s WHCA Dinner.

Biden gets the most votes when he’s next to an African-American bi-racial Black man.

One quick aside: Noah made two attempts (by my count), to make rude remarks at the other people in this room. He intimated that there were so many people seated in the room, they’d managed to get “everyone who’s been to jeffrey Epstein’s island.” Of course, it didn’t go over well in the room, but was hilarious.

Trevor Noah sneaked it in while he was leaving the microphone.

Nevertheless, there were many jokes in the speech that ran for nearly 25 minutes like this (as I mentioned, you can see the target).

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