A video shared by social media users today showed US President Joe Biden offering his coffee to Al Jazeera English correspondent Kimberly Halkett at the White House.
Biden told the reporter that he had not tasted coffee.
When the President brings you coffee.
Thank you @POTUS ☕️ 🍩 I promise donuts next Friday if you come back!
#PebbleBeach https://t.co/jt6pHEnVS7
- Kimberly Halkett (@KimberlyHalkett) February 12, 2021
Last month, Biden joked a journalist after the press conference at the White House after he asked about what he had talked about with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call between them, which indicates positive signs of Biden's relationship with the press.
Fox News correspondent (FOX NEWS) Peter Doucey directed his question to Biden, saying, "Mr. President, what did you speak with Vladimir Putin?"
Biden’s sarcastic response came, "We talked about you, the president sends you his wishes," and the hall burst into laughter over his response and his departure after that.
Earlier, photographers captured a photo of President Biden approaching the fence separating him from reporters and journalists to speak with one of them.
That video clip was shown on YouTube, and it is a duplicate of another taken of Biden in 2013 during the inauguration of former President Barack Obama for a second term in office.
President Biden gives his coffee to a reporter and apologizes for not bringing more out.
Its not an important thing but it's nice to have a president who can have a normal adult conversation with another human being without any power games or grifting.
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- Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 12, 2021
According to an Anadolu Agency report, this highlights that Biden will be closer to the press and the media than his predecessor, Donald Trump, was.
In this snapshot, Biden spoke to a reporter called "El Roker", and told him that he was happy to have held the highest office in the country.
White House spokeswoman Jane Saki has pledged to share "accurate information" with journalists and the American people, and to establish better relationships with news organizations.
"When the president asked me to play this role, I talked to him about the importance of bringing truth and transparency back to the briefing room," Sacchi said at the first press conference hours after Biden was inaugurated.
Saki promised upcoming changes in the White House's relationship with journalists after a very tense relationship between the press and Trump.
She confirmed that she would hold daily briefings to reporters after the White House under President Donald Trump abandoned that, speaking often in an overtly confrontational tone with the media.