U.S. President Joe Biden was able to correctly read the words from his teleprompter without screwing them up, but it could have been because he was talking about his arch-nemesis. He wasn’t talking about Russian President Vladimir Putin; he was talking about former United States President Donald J. Trump.
Biden, speaking before the White House Press Correspondents at the annual dinner, which was canceled due to COVID-19 in 2020 and 2021, noted that it was the first time a sitting president had attended the dinner in six years.
Former President Trump voluntarily skipped the dinner each year he was in office.
“We had a horrible plague, followed by two years of COVID,” Biden said. In those two years. more Americans died under the administration of Biden than did during Trump’s presidency. The COVID-19 vaccine was not made available until a month before Biden’s inauguration, leaving the Trump era of the pandemic a time where there were no vaccines for Americans.