The president of United States, Joe Biden disqualified the former president and possible rival in next year’s elections, Donald Trump, and attacked him for his immaturity. “Yes, age is a problem. I am an older man… and I compete against a 6-year-old boy”he joked.
The Democratic leader spoke Saturday at the White House Correspondents’ Association’s annual dinner, an event that celebrates journalists who cover the day-to-day life of the presidency and raises funds for scholarships.
“Age is the only thing we have in common. In fact, my vice president supports me”added Biden, 81, referring to the fact that, although Trump is 77, he often attacks him and calls him “old.”
In addition, the president referred to the scandal involving his rival, accused of paying US$130,000 to Stormy Daniels, a porn actress with whom he had a sexual encounter, in exchange for her silence. “Donald also has problems these days… we could call them ‘stormy days'”he ironized, in a play on words with the name of the woman involved, which means “stormy.”
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“Honestly, I’m not asking you to take sides. I am asking you to rise to the seriousness of the moment. “Leave behind the horse racing numbers and the cheating moments and the distractions, the sideshows that have come to dominate and sensationalize our politics and focus on what’s really at stake,” Biden asked reporters.
On the other hand, outside the Washington Hilton, where the event took place, Several hundred protesters chanted slogans about the death of journalists in Gaza. Hundreds of protesters encouraged journalists to boycott the annual event and shouted at officials as they entered. The President avoided referring to the issue.
This year Biden suffered several of these protests over what is happening in Gaza at different eventsincluding during a fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall in New York that was interrupted by protesters.
This movement against the Government for support of Israel in Palestine has expanded to university campuses in the United Stateswhich means a growing revolt within the Democratic base that Biden needs to defeat Trump, the Republican favorite.
