US President Joe Biden speaking at the White House. File photoWASHINGTON, May 6. US President Joe Biden said that the States are made up of immigrants. Thus, he supported those gathered at the reception at the White House on the occasion of the Mexican holiday on May 5.
"We are a nation of immigrants. We say it, but people act like they don't believe it. And this is our strength", Biden said.
On May 5, Mexico celebrates the anniversary of the victory in the battle with the army of the second French empire in 1862, in the USA it is the day of American-Mexican friendship. Joe,» the president, to the laughter of the audience, replied that at least some woman in the hall loved him. Later, however, no less peculiarly, he confessed his feelings for his wife. Listing the numerous professions of the audience, he spoke about teachers. «Teachers? I sleep with a teacher every night. With the same one. If I didn't like teachers, I would sleep alone,» Biden said towards his wife, who teaches at the college. He also joked about Education Secretary Miguel Cordona Biden, who was present at the event. «He's teaching people from behind,» the president said. about the end of Biden's career after his words about Russia. This is not Biden's first performance in a humorous genre this week. Earlier, at a reception on the occasion of the end of Ramadan, Biden joked that Muslims have an advantage over Christians, since the latter have a longer fast, and therefore it is harder for Christians .The day before, Biden hosted the American Olympic and Paralympic teams at the White House. As the athletes lined up for photographs, Biden, on the same stage with wheelchair users, shouted far ahead: «Don't jump.» Then he leaned over to Danella Umstead, a skier with an eye disease, who was standing next to him, and explained what he was shouting about: «She's our photographer.» White House photographer Cameron Smith posted a video on her social networks of herself standing on a stepladder a few meters above the ground above the rest of her colleagues. wheelchair user do not jump