Daily Show roasts Biden over eating cream while talking Israel-Gaza conflict

President Joe Biden was probed by reporters on a ceasefire in Gaza in the middle of eating ice cream – but The Daily Show host Michael Kosta said that this is a strategy maybe other politicians should adopt.

Kosta poked fun at the president for trying “to solve Israel and Palestine in one lick”, adding that eating the frozen dessert while standing in an ice cream store was “not the most dignified way to deliver world-changing news”.

After wrapping filming for Late Night with Seth Meyers, Mr Biden and Meyers went to get ice cream when he was stopped by reporters who asked if he had a sense of when a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas could start.

Politicians and activists across the globe are calling for a ceasefire in Gaza after more than 29,000 Palestinians have died during Israel’s aerial bombardment, ground operations and a blockade – which has left food, water and medicine supplies very low, according to the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza. Israel’s response came after a Hamas attack inside Israel, in which about 1,200 people were killed and around another 250 taken hostage.

“Well, I hope by the beginning of the weekend – I mean the end of the weekend. My national security adviser tells me that we’re close, we’re close,” Mr Biden said just after he opened his mouth to take a bite out of the ice cream.

Joe Biden was questioned about a ceasefire while eating ice cream with Seth Meyers

“Now, in Joe Biden’s defence, he had the ice cream first, Kosta said. “It’s not like they asked him about Gaza, and he said, ‘Hold on, if we’re going to talk about war, I’ve got to get a mint chip.’”

“He was in an ice cream store about to eat ice cream, and some reporter jumped in and said, ‘What about Gaza?’ “This is why I don’t think