Top Moments from Biden Fundraiser Featuring Obama and Clinton

NEW YORK — There was a nod to an internet meme and another to President Joe Biden‘s tendency to don aviator sunglasses, but those were not the only standout moments from the Biden campaign’s $26 million fundraiser with former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton in the city’s iconic Radio City Music Hall.

Here is a list of the fundraiser’s most memorable one-liners, compiled by the Washington Examiner, which was in the room:

Biden sends up Boeing

Stephen Colbert: “All three of you have been on Air Force One. You still have the keys, Mr. Biden. That’s made by Boeing, right? Do those doors stay on? Before you get on, do you give Pete Buttigieg a socket wrench to tighten the bolts?”

Biden: “I don’t sit by the door.”

Biden’s biting remark about his dogs

Colbert: “You were this man’s vice president for eight very exciting years. What on your first day in the Oval Office as the president did you learn anything immediately where you went, ‘He could have told me about this?’”

Biden: “I learned that with the president — I always kid the president, I’d get to be the last person to speak to him and give him my advice. And he’d thank me, and I’d walk out knowing he has to make the decision. But that’s the big difference. And as Harry Truman said, the president, if you want a friend in Washington, get a dog. I got one and get a Secret Service agent.”

Biden takes a swing at Trump’s age

Colbert: “Since the State of the Union, President Biden, you’ve been busy. You’ve been in Raleigh, Saginaw, Milwaukee, Phoenix, Vegas. Hotlanta, the Philly suburbs, Dallas, Houston. Donald Trump, as far as we can tell, has just been trying to win a third championship at his own golf course. My question to you, sir, is: Can voters trust a presidential candidate who has not won a single Trump International Golf Club trophy? At long last, sir, have you no chip shot?”

Biden: “Look, I’d be happy to play. I told him this once before when he came into the Oval before he was sworn in. I said, ‘I’ll give you three strokes, but you carry your own bag.’”

Colbert takes a dig at Trump’s mounting legal problems

Colbert: “Mr. Presidents, thank you so much for joining me this evening. This is an especially exciting and rare occasion. Three presidents have all come to New York, and not one of them is here to appear in court.”

Colbert tries to cut short three loquacious presidents

Colbert: “We have limited time together here, so I’m going to hold you two gentlemen, President Obama, President Clinton. I’m going to hold you to five-minute answers. … President Biden, because you are the sitting president, you get seven minutes because as the sitting president, you can order SEAL Team 6 to take me out, which, according to Donald Trump’s lawyers, is perfectly OK.”

Obama and who he’ll let call him by his name

Colbert: “President Obama, I’ve been lucky enough to spend some time with you and your wife. She has repeatedly asked me to call her Michelle, which I now do. I say, ‘Hello, Michelle.’ I continue to call you Mr. President because you have never invited me to call you anything else. So my question is to Presidents Biden and Clinton — don’t you think, at this point, I should be able to call him Barack?”

Obama: “No, but your wife can. I like her.”