PRESIDENT BIDEN says Digital Creators Are Future of News
WASHINGTON, DC - As he entered the Indian Treaty room in the White House Complex to address about 100 digital creators, President Joe Biden first paused to take a selfie with the crowd.
He then started by talking about how his grandchildren were not consuming the news by reading newspapers or watching television anymore.
“The fact is, you are the future,” President Biden said. “ You’re the source of the news.” He talked about how more people wanted to go into the creator business these days.
“What do you think when I retire? What do you think?,” he said, to raucous laughter. “I got contacts, man.”
President Biden talked about how his staff had informed him that creator economy was now worth $250 billion, how it is expected double in the next few years.
“I’d like to talk about borrowing some money from you all,” he said.
The creators are also changing the idea of what's consequential.
“You all understand that you have an obligation to report what you think is true and say what you think is true,” he said. “We've kind of divided into our competing camps. Now, I know I only look like I'm 40 but I've been around a long time, and it's never been this. I mean, the way we treat each other in politics.”
The President went on to reflect how the new technology is opening up so many possibilities for the future in the communications industry.
“I think you're gonna change the entire dynamic of the way in which we communicate. And that's why I invited you to the White House, because I'm looking for a job,” he said to loud laughter.
“Look, the innovation entrepreneur spirit in this room is what makes America, America. I know you've heard me say this before, but when I spent an awful lot of time with Xi Jining when I was vice president, and over 80 hours alone, just he and I talking,” President Biden recalled.
President Joe Biden descends from Air Force One during a trip earlier this summer to talk to members of the Democratic Party in Wisconsin. Photo by John L. Alexander. (File)
“I was traveling in China with him. And he asked me, he said, ‘Can you define America for me?’ I suggest I can. One word, possibilities. Possibilities. When you think, when you go around the world, as many of you have, you look at America like, you know, these guys can do anything when they set their mind to it. It's just a nation of possibilities and change. And you are the new possibilities. You are the new breakthrough in how we communicate and it matters.”