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Biden Quips About His Age, Trump, and McConnell at Gridiron Dinner

PART-TIME COMEDIAN

The president made sure to note the event was hours past his bedtime.

President Joe Biden gives a thumbs-up in a car.
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President Joe Biden brought jokes about Donald Trump—and himself—to Saturday’s Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, D.C., humorously noting the choices voters had before them in November. “One candidate’s too old and mentally unfit to be president,” he said in his keynote address, according to The Wall Street Journal. “The other guy’s me.” Biden spoke more than three hours after the event’s 7 p.m. start time, a time he made sure to note was “six hours past my bedtime.” Other jokes included digs at dinner attendee Jeff Bezos and The Washington Post (the “richest man in the world, even with owning The Washington Post”); Mitch McConnell, 82, stepping down as GOP leader (“I hate to see a friend give up in his prime”); and House Republicans (“Republicans were going to do a skit tonight, but they couldn’t get a speaker”). Other event attendees included leaders from Ireland and Estonia, while other speakers included Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Read it at The Wall Street Journal