The White House thanked one of the most adversarial members of its press corps, Peter Doocy, after the Fox News correspondent acknowledged President Joe Biden was likely tired because he’d been working all night.
“He has been basically working all through the night, the equivalent of an all nighter, Eastern time,” Doocy reported from Vietnam on Sunday, while awaiting a press conference from Biden, who landed in Hanoi after attending the G20 summit in New Delhi, India. “So, he’s probably pretty tired. Pretty jet-lagged.”
“But,” he continued, pausing and appearing momentarily distracted. “He should take at least a handful [of questions].”
Journalist Aaron Rupar shared a clip of the moment on X (formerly Twitter) with the caption: “You can see the exact moment when Peter Doocy realizes he just demolished one of his own network’s talking points.”
It had been viewed more than a million times by Monday morning, including, apparently, by White House press secretary…