US President Biden to get roasted at White House journalists' dinner
The occasion is meant to celebrate the constitution's First Amendment guaranteeing free speech -- and a free press. However, the jokes tend to get the headlines. US President Joe Biden at a State Dinner event in the East Room of the White House in Washington. WASHINGTON: Washington’s political and media elites observe their annual truce — of a few hours — Saturday at the White House Correspondents Association dinner, where President Joe Biden will find himself the butt of jokes and hit back with his own. The ritual is a landmark on the US capital’s social calendar and once again takes place in the same Hilton Hotel where Ronald Reagan was shot and nearly killed by John Hinckley Jr in 1981, as he left from delivering a speech to trade unions. The dinner institution had started to wither — first boycotted by Donald Trump, then shut down for Covid-19 altogether. Even last year, strict Covid testing, frequent use of masks and many guests keeping away resulted in a relatively low-ke...