{"id":1089228,"date":"2021-12-06T09:28:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T14:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1089228"},"modified":"2021-12-06T09:28:33","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T14:28:33","slug":"elite-central-masked-biden-gets-standing-ovation-at-kennedy-center-honors-as-david-letterman-bashes-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elite-central-masked-biden-gets-standing-ovation-at-kennedy-center-honors-as-david-letterman-bashes-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Elite Central: Masked Biden Gets Standing Ovation at Kennedy Center Honors as David Letterman Bashes Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felite-central-masked-biden-gets-standing-ovation-at-kennedy-center-honors-as-david-letterman-bashes-trump%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1089228&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Despite President Joe Biden\u2019s abysmal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/01\/gop-poll-joe-biden-at-36-percent-approval-rating\/\">approval ratings<\/a> as the nation suffers from the supply-chain crisis and crippling inflation, elites attending the Kennedy Center Honors on Sunday night gave the increasingly polarizing president a standing ovation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The moment occurred when comedian David Letterman bashed former President Donald Trump to acknowledge President Biden, who kept his mask fully on during the event.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u201cIt\u2019s quite nice once again to see the presidential box being occupied,\u201d Letterman said in the opening remarks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Trump did not attend the Kennedy Center Honors throughout his tenure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The crowd, filled with Hollywood elites and various politicians, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10278667\/David-Letterman-takes-SWIPE-Donald-Trump-Biden-standing-ovation-Kennedy-Center-Honors.html\">reportedly<\/a> \u201cwent crazy, applauding wildly for Biden, who was attending with wife Jill, Vice President&nbsp;Kamala Harris,&nbsp;and second gentleman Doug Emhoff,\u201d according to the<em> Daily Mail<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Amid the applause, Letterman added, \u201cAnd the same with the Oval Office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Having already made the event political, Letterman declared it was \u201cnot a night for politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19018498\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237042236.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19018498\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237042236-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>U.S. First Lady Jill Biden (2nd L bottom) and U.S. President Joe Biden (C bottom) wave to guests as they attend the 44th Kennedy Center Honors at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, on December 5, 2021. (SAMUEL CORUM\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_19018522\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237042547.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19018522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237042547-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>U.S. President Joe Biden makes his point at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, on December 5, 2021. (SAMUEL CORUM\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u201cIt\u2019s so great to be in the Capitol, but it\u2019s not a night for politics,\u201d Letterman said. \u201cBut I will tell you that I\u2019m a bit nervous to be in the company of unequal power. Makes me a little nervous to be in front of that kind of power.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Trump skipped the honorary night his first year in office, saying he did not want to become a \u201cpolitical distraction\u201d after several honorees threatened to boycott the show if he attended. The presidential box would go unoccupied over the next four years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) attended the event and told reporters ahead of the show that a president should be attending the show to recognize the arts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u201cIt\u2019s something that should always be the case that the President of the United States would be recognizing the value of the arts,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Even though arts have been wielded as a propaganda tool over the past few years, Pelosi called the arts a \u201cmost unifying force.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018It\u2019s so great to be in the Capitol, but it\u2019s not a night for politics,\u2019 Letterman said. \u2018But I will tell you that I\u2019m a bit nervous to be in the company of unequal power. Makes me a little nervous to be in front of that kind of power.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite President Joe Biden\u2019s abysmal approval ratings as the nation suffers from the supply-chain crisis and crippling inflation, elites attending the Kennedy Center Honors on Sunday night gave the increasingly &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}