While you were hopefully enjoying your Saturday evening, some of us were hard at work torturing ourselves with clips of the White House Correspondents Dinner. Perhaps the dumbest, most tone-deaf event in Washington, the “nerd prom” is where journalists go to cosplay as celebrities while being assured they are saving the world.
How do you manage to make that dynamic even worse? You invite Joe Biden to speak and tell “jokes” like this.
BIDEN: I had a great stretch since the State of the Union, but Donald has had a few tough days lately. You might call it “stormy weather.” What the hell?
Be sure to play the clip because as bad as the transcription looks, the president’s bumbling delivery makes it all the worse. Props to the drug cocktail team for their work given how far past Biden’s bedtime this took place, but they aren’t miracle workers.
Of course, I’d quibble with the idea that the president has “had a great stretch since the State of the Union.” Maybe that’s what his handlers are telling him to keep his old-man anger at bay, but in the real world, Biden has the lowest approval rating of any president in history.