The allusion to the presidential election of 2024 is not frankly subtle: US President Joe Biden joked during a medal ceremony to singer Bruce Springsteen and actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus in particular regarding his desire to do a double’.
The 46th President of the United States of America honored Tuesday at the White House personalities of entertainment and culture, who received either the ‘national medal of arts’ or the national medal of humanities ‘.
Among them the African-American writer Colson Whitehead, whose Joe Biden, visibly in a good mood, noted that he had twice received the prestigious Pulitzer Prize, for ‘Underground Railroad’ and for ‘The Nickel Boys’. “I would try a double myself,” said the 80-year-old Democrat, to laughter and applause.
Joe Biden says so far he ‘intends’ to run once more in 2024, but has not officially launched his campaign.
‘Born to Compete’
The president also decorated Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the unscrupulous vice-president and then president of the fierce comedy series ‘Veep’, and ‘Boss’ Bruce Springsteen, as well as fashion designer Vera Wang and the Empress of the soul’ Gladys Knight.
‘Bruce Springsteen’s music celebrates our triumphs, heals our wounds, gives us hope. She captures that indomitable spirit that defines America,’ the White House said of the ‘Born in the USA’ singer.
Addressing the rock legend, in a wise suit and tie to receive his medal, Joe Biden once once more joked regarding his electoral intentions: ‘Bruce, there are people who were born to compete, my man’, he launched, in reference to another of his hits, ‘Born to Run’.
The president played on the meaning of the verb ‘to run’, which means ‘to run’, but also designates the fact of running for an election.
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