WASHINGTON (Reuters) – It was take-your-child-to-work day on the White Home on Thursday and President Joe Biden leaped absolutely into the occasion, taking questions from inquisitive youngsters at a mock information convention the place some revelations had been made: Chocolate chip ice cream is his favourite and High Gun Maverick his most popular film.
Biden, 80, sporting his signature aviator sun shades (Ray Bans, he stated), was escorted on to the South Garden by a number of pint-sized “Secret Service brokers,” additionally sporting aviators.
Awaiting him had been dozens of kids who joined their mother and father for what has been an annual occasion on the White Home.
Over the following half hour he proceeded to take extra questions from the kids than he has from the common White Home press corps in weeks.
Who served as his greatest inspiration? His mom and father.
What number of guards are within the White Home? Not sure.
Favourite coloration? Blue.
What did he have for breakfast? A croissant with scrambled eggs and bacon.
The children stumped him once they requested which nation was the final one he visited. (It was Eire).
Biden stated he had met 89 heads of state thus far.
“I am attempting to assume what was the final place I used to be,” Biden stated, earlier than one of many youngsters reminded him of his emotional Irish journey earlier this month.
Biden performed as if he needed to get again to work just a few instances however was simply persuaded to stay round for extra questions.
He managed to pitch to the group of kids, most of them offspring of the White Home press corps and workers, on why he wish to elevate taxes on the wealthiest Individuals.
(Reporting by Steve Holland and Andrea Shalal; Modifying by Heather Timmons and Diane Craft)