Topic: Bears Ears

At the White House Correspondents' Dinner, Biden joked about Fox News reporters being vaccinated and boosted. He later shared a story about a young girl asking him to protect Bears Ears National Monument, which the hosts dismiss as a scripted fabrication. Another verbal slip is noted where the President referred to "economic cubs" instead of "hubs."

President Trump announced the largest rollback of federal land protection in U.S. history, shrinking the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah. Trump argued the move reverses federal overreach and restores land rights to local citizens. Environmentalists and Native American tribes filed lawsuits, alleging the rollback is intended to open the land to mineral and oil exploration.