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Biden to headline renewed White House Correspondents Dinner – New York Post

May 1, 2022
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WASHINGTON — President Biden cracked jokes before more than 2,000 guests on Saturday at the revived White House Correspondents’ Dinner as DC’s biggest annual party returned after two years of COVID-19 restrictions.

“Special thanks to the 42 percent of you that actually applauded,” Biden said as he took the stage.

“I’m really excited to be here tonight with the only group of Americans with a lower approval rating than I have.”

The dinner for reporters, officials and celebrities began around 8 p.m. at the Washington Hilton and will feature remarks from a sitting president for the first time since 2016 and entertainment from “The Daily Show” host Trevor Noah.

“This is the first time the president attended this dinner in six years. It’s understandable, we had a horrible plague — followed by two years of COVID,” Biden said in apparent reference to former President Donald Trump, who never attended the event while in office.

“Just imagine if my predecessor came to this dinner this year. Now that would have been a real coup if that occurred.”

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President Biden poked fun at his low approval ratings in his remarks.
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Trevor Noah of "The Daily Show" addresses the dinner.
Trevor Noah of “The Daily Show” addresses the audience.
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Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson, Olympic medalist Caitlyn Jenner and Martha Stewart are among the guests at the $350-per-seat bash.

The black tie gala is taking place despite concerns it could be one of the pandemic’s great super-spreaders. More than 10 percent of attendees at DC’s similar but much smaller and snootier Gridiron Club dinner this month caught the coronavirus.

The dinner kicks off a night of festivities and will command significant red-carpet attention for the first time since the Obama administration.

Attendees must provide proof of vaccination and a same-day negative COVID-19 rapid test, but Biden will not be eating to limit his possible exposure to COVID-19, the White House said.

The Bidens at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on April 30, 2022.
The Bidens at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on April 30, 2022.
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Biden is the first sitting president to attend since 2016.
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President Biden speaks during the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
President Biden speaks during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
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Steven Portnoy, president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, welcomed guests to “the biggest annual celebration of journalism, scholarship and self-effacing humor” in comments after dinner.

“We are grateful for the vaccines, the therapies, the tests that make it possible for us to be here tonight,” he said. “And we are pleased to have the president in attendance here with us, which restores a tradition of this dinner that dates back to Calvin Coolidge in 1924.”

He then showed a fake picture of Biden in attendance at dinner.

Portnoy went on to say that Biden first attended the dinner in 1974 at table 82.

“Tonight you don’t look a table over 79,” Portnoy quipped.

Jill Biden laughs as during the president's remarks.
Jill Biden laughs as during the president’s remarks.
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WASHINGTON DC - The President and First Lady along with many other senior government officials and members of the news media attend the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. Trevor Noah, the host of "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central, to headline. PETE DAVIDSON & KIM KARDASHIAN
“Daily Show” host Trevor Noah is the dinner’s headliner.
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The event returned after COVID restrictions, but there are fears it will be a superspreader after a recent event caused an outbreak.
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After the dinner, Colombian Ambassador Juan Carlos Pinzon and cryptocurrency platform Binance are hosting a large afterparty at a Dupont Circle mansion — dubbed “An Evening of Magical Realism.”

One of the night’s most sought-after afterparties is thrown by veteran White House reporter April Ryan of TheGrio at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. “Rush Hour” actor Chris Tucker will host the party — called “A Seat at the Table: A Celebration of Black Media” — and nine-time Grammy Award-winning singer Mary J. Blige will perform.

But Biden also has lobbed insults at the press — calling Fox News’ Peter Doocy a “stupid son of a bitch” in January — and his White House aides have restricted press access to a far greater degree than during the Trump administration.

Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson at the WH Correspondents' Dinner
Pete Davidson and Kim Kardashian mingle at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
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In a break from the Trump era, when most large indoor events at the White House were open to any reporter who wished to attend, Biden’s press aides mysteriously pre-screen reporters, citing the pandemic, and end up heavily disfavoring certain outlets.

The White House requires reporters to RSVP for indoor Biden events, and then non-transparently picks those allowed to attend. Biden’s deputies have refused to divulge the selection criteria and have provided a range of conflicting explanations to individual journalists. Reporters understand the practice to be a way of shaping the questions that get asked.

In a blow to Biden’s perceived accessibility, a staffer dressed in an Easter bunny costume interrupted him last week to stop his attempt answer to a reporter’s question at the White House Easter Egg Roll.

Frustrating the White House press corps, Biden also gives far fewer interviews than his predecessors, and most of them go to TV outlets or social media personalities rather than print publications.

Pete Davidson and Kim Kardashian attend the 2022 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner
Pete Davidson and Kim Kardashian attend the 2022 White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.
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Miranda Kerr and her husband Evan Spiegel arrive on the red carpet.
Miranda Kerr and her husband Evan Spiegel arrive on the red carpet.
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Attorney Benjamin Crump gestures as he arrives on the red carpet for the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner.
Attorney Benjamin Crump gestures as he arrives on the red carpet for the annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.
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Biden sat for just 28 interviews during his first year in office — versus 95 by Trump, 162 by Barack Obama and 50 by George W. Bush. Even Ronald Reagan, who was shot in the lung in an assassination attempt shortly after taking office, doubled Biden, doing 65 interviews in his first year.

Biden bests his predecessors in doing more frequent short Q&A sessions, however — with 225 as of Jan. 20, versus 120 by Trump, 46 by Obama and 148 by George W. Bush — according to records kept by White House Transition Project Director Martha Kumar. But those exchanges generally are brief and can be single-word answers to shouted questions.

Possibly to counter the public perception that he avoids press engagement, Biden in January gave a 1 hour, 52-minute press conference that was longer than any hosted by Trump or Obama, according to former CBS News reporter Mark Knoller, who is respected for his White House record-keeping.

Martha Stewart arrives on the red carpet for the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner.
Martha Stewart arrives on the red carpet for the annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.
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Mario Van Peebles and Chris Tucker arrive on the red carpet.
Mario Van Peebles and Chris Tucker arrive on the red carpet.
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White House press secretary Jen Psaki, in a break from the Trump era, also hosts daily press briefings, though she spends most time on the front two rows of the seven-row briefing room. Questions often come TV reporters who ask repetitive questions about major news stories so each network gets a clip of their own correspondent. On Friday, Psaki took questions from just two reporters not seated in the first two rows.

Psaki attempted a joke of her own Friday, telling reporters that Biden’s dinner speech “is not funny at all.”

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