{"id":2231817,"date":"2024-04-28T00:17:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T04:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/colin-jost-roasts-biden-and-trump-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner\/"},"modified":"2024-04-28T00:19:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T04:19:34","slug":"colin-jost-roasts-biden-and-trump-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/colin-jost-roasts-biden-and-trump-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Jost jokes about Biden and Trump at WH Correspondents\u2019 Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fcolin-jost-roasts-biden-and-trump-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner%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=2231817&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>Colin Jost, from &#8220;Saturday Night Live,&#8221; \u200centertained guests at the White House\u2064 Correspondents&#8217; Dinner with humorous jabs at President Joe Biden. Kelly O&#8217;Donnell,\u200d the \u200bWHCA President, introduced Jost by showcasing his \u2063high school newspaper clips. Jost jokingly noted the absence\u200c of\u2063 technology during \u2062Biden&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-says-she-is-ending-conservatorship-between-former-nfl-player-michael-oher-and-memphis-couple\/\" title=\"Judge ends conservatorship between Michael Oher and Memphis couple.\">high \u2064school years<\/a>. He also playfully mentioned following President Obama&#8217;s speeches.\u200c Jost then shifted focus to Donald Trump&#8217;s \u200ctrial, \u2062offering witty commentary.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/colin-jost\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Colin Jost<\/a> of <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> wasted no time in poking fun at President <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Joe Biden<\/a> on Saturday night at the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house-correspondents-dinner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>White House Correspondents\u2019 Association President Kelly O\u2019Donnell introduced the host of the event by displaying some of his high school newspaper clips, which Jost thanked her for upon taking the podium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not really fair,\u201d Jost said. \u201cYou can\u2019t do it for President Biden because the technology wasn\u2019t invented when he was in high school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jost, who spoke after Biden, said he was excited to be on stage with the president \u201cmostly to see if I could figure out where Obama was pulling the strings from\u201d but that it\u2019s not always easy following him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean it\u2019s not always easy following what he\u2019s saying,\u201d Jost said.<\/p>\n<p>Backing off of Biden, the <em>SNL<\/em> \u201cWeekend Update\u201d host asked the crowd of journalists and celebrities to acknowledge \u201chow refreshing it is to see a president of the United States at an event that doesn\u2019t begin with a bailiff saying, \u2018All rise,\u2019\u201d before offering some analysis of former President Donald Trump\u2019s trial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to point out it\u2019s after 10 p.m. \u2014 Sleepy Joe is still awake while Donald Trump has spent the past week in court every morning,\u201d Jost said.<\/p>\n<p>Jost also touched on some polling numbers ahead of Biden and Trump\u2019s 2024 general election rematch, telling the audience his \u201cWeekend Update\u201d co-host Michael Che was going to join him, \u201cbut in solidarity with President Biden, I decided to lose all my black support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, he summarized November\u2019s contest between Biden and Trump as one in which \u201cthe Republican candidate for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kjp-continues-gaslighting-the-american-people\/\" title=\"KJP Continues Gaslighting the American People\">president owes half<\/a> a billion in fines for bank fraud and is currently spending his days farting himself awake during a porn star hush money trial, and the race is tied.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing makes sense anymore,\u201d Jost said before juxtaposing Trump, \u201ca famous New York City playboy\u201d who \u201ctook abortion rights away\u201d with Biden, an 81-year-old Catholic \u201cwho\u2019s trying to give you your abortion rights back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He even dragged Robert F. Kennedy Jr. into the mix, tying the independent presidential candidate\u2019s anti-vaccine stance to his 2024 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike his vaccine card says, he doesn\u2019t have a shot,\u201d Jost said.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Jost\u2019s proudest moment was a joke about the cocaine found at the White House last year, which he said he left there the last time he was in Washington.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLuckily, the president was able to put it to good use for his State of the Union\u201d address, Jost said. \u201cI\u2019m kidding, of course. The president doesn\u2019t call it cocaine \u2014 he calls it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-trump-religious-groups-begin-turning-up-heat-on-gop-to-take-action-on-marjorie-taylor-greene\/\" title=\"Pro-Trump, Religious Groups Begin Turning Up Heat On GOP To Take Action On Marjorie Taylor Greene\">high-speed rail<\/a>. By the way, can you blame the guy for turning to cocaine? He must be exhausted orchestrating four separate trials against his rival, rigging the Super Bowl, and gearing up to steal a second election. Wow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After a long pause, he added, \u201cBiden laughed,\u201d as C-SPAN cameras showed the gleeful president.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Jost from SNL humorously targeted President Biden at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner. Host Kelly O\u2019Donnell showcased Jost\u2019s old high school newspaper clips, setting a playful tone for the evening. 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