‘They say I’m ancient’: Joe Biden pokes fun at White House correspondents’ dinner

Joe Biden, the oldest president in US history, joked about his age as he addressed the White House Correspondents’ Association annual dinner.
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The president earned a big laugh when he said: ‘They say I’m ancient; I say I’m wise. They say I’m over the hill; Don Lemon would say, “That’s a man in his prime”.’ The CNN host Don Lemon was fired last week after a series of missteps including remarks about the Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley. Biden also poked fun at the media, especially Fox Corp’s settlement of a defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5m. ‘It’s great the cable news networks are here tonight. MSNBC, owned by NBC Universal. Fox News, owned by Dominion Voting Systems.’ For all the comedy, Biden also used his speech to issue forceful denunciations of attacks on press freedom and called for the release of the Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who has been imprisoned in Russia since March.

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48 COMMENTS

  1. Actually Joe, they're saying you're forgetful and incompetent, a danger to your own country. Certainly not a leader at this point, you are sleep-walking us into WW3. MY tax dollars pay your salary and because you are unable to perform the duties of the job of POTUS I want to retire.

  2. C'mon joey, you forgot to mention Julian Assange, who has been imprisoned without a conviction or trial for MORE THAN A DECADE!
    "Journalism is not a crime".
    Isn't freedom of the press a "pillar of freedom"?

  3. Thing is when Reagan made jokes about his age they were funny and he was in fact only in is mid 70's and would be out of office before he was even the age Biden is now , the idea of man this age and not aging well running a superpower is ludicrous, look how it worked out for the soviet union

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