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(Washington, DC) - President Biden hosted Bill and Hillary Clinton alongside billionaire titans and actor Robert De Niro last night at the White House for a state dinner honoring Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook, figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, World Bank President Ajay Banga, and United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain also attended.
“We both remember the choices that were made to forge a friendship,” Biden, 81, said during his toast. “We both remember the hard work, what it has done to find healing.”
Kishida, 66, invoked “Star Trek” in his toast, pledging that the Japanese-US relationship would “boldly go where no one had gone before.”
Paul Simon, 82, (the First Lady's favorite) provided the evening’s entertainment in the State Dining Room.
Unlike past state dinners, first son Hunter Biden did not make an appearance.