Gaza protesters target White House dinner but Biden focuses on Trump

President Joe Biden speaks at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner at the Washington Hilton (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

The war in Gaza spurred large protests outside a glitzy event with US President Joe Biden, journalists, politicians and celebrities, but it went all but unmentioned by participants inside.

Mr Biden instead used the annual White House correspondents’ dinner to make both jokes and grim warnings about Republican rival Donald Trump’s fight to reclaim the US presidency.