白宮記者晚宴,總統談笑風生

“Welcome to the fourth quarter of my presidency,” U.S. President Barack Obama said Saturday at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

The event provides an annual venue for the president to engage in self-mockery and poke fun at some of his harshest critics.

“Six years into my presidency, people still say I’m arrogant. Aloof. Condescending,” Mr. Obama said. "People are so dumb. That’s why I don’t meet with them.”

This year’s dinner was entertained by Saturday Night Live comedian Cicely Strong who told the president that he was a lot like Madonna, adding “you’ve both given this country so much, but in like a year and a half, you gotta stop.”

White House correspondents began staging the dinner in 1914 to push for broader journalistic access to the White House and to support vigorous reporting on the presidency.奧巴馬在星期六的白宮記者晚宴上說：“歡迎大家在我總統任期最後四分之一的時間光臨。”

每年一次的白宮記者晚宴提供了美國總統自我嘲弄，同時取笑他的一些最嚴厲的批評者。

奧巴馬在今年的宴會上說： “我當總統都六年了，還有人說我傲慢，超然，居高臨下。這些人太傻，難怪我從來不見他們。”

今年白宮記者晚宴的主持人是美國笑星塞西莉·斯特朗。她也是美國喜劇綜藝節目“週六夜現場”的主持人。斯特朗說，奧巴馬總統與麥當娜不無共同之處。她對奧巴馬總統說：“你們兩人多年來都爲國家做了這麼多，一年半後必須要停止。”

白宮記者1914年開始舉行年度宴會，以便推動更多新聞記者對白宮採訪渠道，並支持更有力度地報道有關總統的消息。