Colin Jost Roasts Trump On Trial At White House Correspondents' Dinner

Colin Jost, the featured entertainer at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, went all in on Donald Trump and his legal troubles, got in a few zingers about Joe Biden’s age and finished his gig by telling a long story of how the president is a “decent” man.

Some of Jost’s jokes didn’t land in the room, but he did well when he framed the 2024 election race.

“Let me see if I can summarize where this race stands at this moment,” Jost said. “The Republican candidate for president owe s half 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?!”

“The race is tied. Nothing makes sense anymore. The candidate who is a New York City playboy took abortion rights away, and the guy who is trying to give your abortion rights back is an 80-year-old Catholic. How does that make sense?”

He went on, “By the way, President Biden — isn’t it crazy that he’s only our second Catholic president? And what’s even crazier is that in just a few short months, we will have our third in RFK Jr.”

Biden smiled and clapped.

Jost added, “I’m kidding. Like his vaccine card said, he doesn’t have a shot.”

Biden also laughed when Jost made a reference to an embarrassing incident at the White House last year.

“The last time I was in DC I left my cocaine at the White House. Luckily, the president was able to put it to good use for his State of the Union,” Jost said, a reference to the outlandish claims on the right about Biden’s energy.

Overall, Jost’s humor about Biden was good-natured, but his material on Trump had bite. “Can we just acknowledge how refreshing it is to see a president of the United States at an event that doesn’t begin with the bailiff saying, ‘All rise.'”

Like the president, Jost finished his remarks on a serious tone, talking about decency and how Biden reflected that.

“My grandpa voted for decency, and decency is why we’re all here tonight,” he said. “Decency is how we’re able to be here tonight. Decency is how we’re able to make jokes about each other and one of us doesn’t go to prison afterwards. We go to the Newsmax after party.”

Like Biden, Jost also targeted Fox News in some of his quips. “Fox News is here tonight. It’s the end of an era. Rupert Murdoch stepped down at Fox News, which is strange. I didn’t think there was a step down from Fox News.”

Trump weighed in on the dinner on Truth Social, writing, “The White House Correspondents’ Dinner was really bad. Colin Jost BOMBED, and Crooked Joe was an absolute disaster! Doesn’t get much worse than this!”

Watch Jost’s entire speech above.