Donald Trump and his Manhattan criminal trial were the butt of the jokes at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday night with both host Colin Jost and President Joe Biden taking jabs.
“Donald has had a few tough days lately. You might call it Stormy weather,” Mr Biden quipped at the annual event.
He referred to his political opponent as “a six-year-old” and “Sleepy Don.”
Mr Jost joked about Mr Trump’s trial, saying: "Can we just acknowledge how refreshing it is to see a President of the United States at an event that doesn’t begin with a bailiff saying, ‘All rise?’”
Mr Trump is expected to return to court on Tuesday for the second week of testimony in the trial in which he’s accused of falsifying business records to conceal hush-money payments that were made to adult film star Stormy Daniels, just days before the 2016 presidential election.
Prosecutors allege it was part of a greater catch-and-kill scheme to influence the election.
This past week the jury heard from David Pecker, former National Enquirer publisher, who doubled down on his testimony that he bought and silenced the story of Playboy model Karen McDougal’s alleged affair with Mr Trump.
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