President Joe Biden on Saturday opened his remarks at the White House Correspondents Association’s annual dinner with a pair of digs at his predecessor, who skipped the annual event for the first three years of his presidency before the 2020 edition was canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Noting that he was the first chief executive to attend the event — a charity fundraiser which supports journalism scholarships — since then-President Barack Obama participated in 2016, Mr Biden said it was understandable that no president had attended in the intervening years.
