Dinner for journalists, officials and celebrities starts around 8 p.m. at the Washington Hilton and will include comments from the current president for the first time since 2016 and entertainment by “The Daily Show” host Trevor Noah.
Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson, Drew Barrymore and Bill Gates’s ex-wife Melinda Frances Gates are among the expected guests at $ 350 per seat. The black tie gala will continue despite concerns that it will be one of the major super-spreaders of the pandemic. More than 10 percent of those attending the similar but much smaller and more satanic Gridiron Club dinner in DC this month caught the coronavirus. Dinner begins on a festive night and will draw significant attention to the red carpet for the first time since the Obama administration. Attendees must provide proof of vaccination and a negative COVID-19 test the same day, but Biden will not eat to limit his potential exposure to COVID-19, the White House said. President Biden, seen earlier on April 30, 2022, is going to make some jokes at the big DC dinner. AP Photo / Patrick Semansky “Daily Show” presenter Trevor Noah is the top of the dinner. Reuters The incident came back after restrictions on COVID, but there are fears that it will be over-broadcasting following a recent incident that caused an outbreak. After dinner, Colombian Ambassador Juan Carlos Pinzon and the Binance cryptocurrency platform host a big party at a Dupont Circle mansion – called “An Night of Magical Realism”. One of the night’s most sought-after parties is hosted by TheGrio’s White House veteran reporter April Ryan at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. “Rush Hour” actor Chris Tucker will host the party – titled “A Seat at the Table: A Celebration of Black Media” – and will feature nine-time Grammy Award-winning singer Mary J. Blige. Speaking at the dinner, Biden is expected to be described as a press champion after former President Donald Trump boycotted the dinner and attacked journalists as “fake news”. In recent statements, Biden has praised journalists covering the war in Ukraine. But Biden also has insults in the press – calling Fox News’s Peter Duchess “stupid bitch” in January – and his White House aides have cut access to the press to a much greater extent than during of the Trump administration. Pete Davidson and Kim Kardashian gather for White House correspondents’ dinner. During a break from the Trump era, when most major White House events were open to any reporter who wished to attend, Biden’s press assistants mysteriously prepared reporters, citing the pandemic, and ending some inside. The White House urges journalists to respond to Biden’s events indoors and then opaquely selects those who are allowed to attend. Biden MPs refused to disclose the selection criteria and gave a series of conflicting explanations to individual journalists. Journalists understand that practice is a way of formulating the questions that are asked. In a blow to Biden’s perceived accessibility, an employee dressed in an Easter bunny costume interrupted him last week to stop him from answering a reporter’s question on the White House Easter roll. Disappointing the White House press body, Biden also gives far fewer interviews than his predecessors, and most of them go to TV stations or social media personalities than to print publications. Pete Davidson and Kim Kardashian attend the White House Correspondents Association dinner in 2022. Paul Morigi / Getty Images Miranda Kerr and her husband Evan Spiegel arrive on the red carpet. Tom Brenner / REUTERS Prosecutor Benjamin Crump gestures as he arrives at the annual White Carpet Association’s Dinner’s Dinner.Tom Brenner / REUTERS Biden received just 28 interviews during his first year in office – 95 from Trump, 162 from Barack Obama and 50 from George W. Bush. Even Ronald Reagan, who was shot in the lung in an assassination attempt shortly after taking office, doubled Biden, giving 65 interviews in his first year. However, Biden outperforms his predecessors by holding more frequent short Q&A sessions – 225 on Jan. 20, 120 against Trump, 46 by Obama and 148 by George W. Bush – according to records kept by the Program Director. White House Martha Kumar. But these exchanges are generally short and can be one-word answers to spoken questions. Possibly refuting public perception that he was avoiding engagement with the press, Biden gave a 1-hour, 52-minute press conference in January that was longer than any other Trump or Obama, according to a former CBS News reporter. Mark Knoller, who is respected for keeping White House records. Martha Stewart arrives on the red carpet for the White House Correspondents Association’s annual dinner. Tom Brenner / REUTERSMario Van Peebles and Chris Tucker reach the red carpet. Tom Brenner / REUTERS White House press secretary Jen Psaki, on a break from the Trump era, also hosts daily press releases, although she spends most of her time in the first two rows of the seven-row newsroom. TV reporters often ask frequently asked questions about important news, so that each network receives an excerpt from its own correspondent. On Friday, Psaki received questions from only two journalists who were not sitting in the first two rows. Psaki attempted a joke on Friday, telling reporters that Biden’s speech at dinner “is not funny at all.”