“We are BTS,” said RM, whose official name is Kim Nam Joon and is considered the de facto leader of the mega group. up to the pulpit briefing room. “It great honored to be invited to the White House today to discuss important issues of Anti-Asian Hate Crimes, Asia Inclusion and Diversity”.
White House Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, who opened up for in group noted that while “many of there are a lot of you know BTS nominated for a Grammy international icons, they also play important role as youth ambassadors promoting the message of respect and positivity.
Another group then members took delivers its own messages in turn in Korean. The translator later summed up up them various messages such as: “equality begins when will we open up and hug everyone of our differences” and “we hope that today one step forward respect and understand everyone one how valuable human.”
Then RM returned to the pulpit.
“Finally, we thank President Biden and the White House for giving this important opportunity to talk about important causes,” he said. “Remind yourself of what can we do as artists.
After them star turn in briefing, BTS headed to the Oval Office to meet with the president himself on in last day in May is designated Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Before joining in news briefing, BTS filmed content with White House digital team and got a tour of grounds, according to the White House official.
groupvisit with Biden, which, for inexplicable reasons, was closed to the press. coverage – was latest example of this White House, using power of Celebrities to look out for key priorities.
Last July, the administration hired singer Olivia Rodrigo to promote coronavirus vaccinations. As well as just last week the White House invited actress and singer Selena Gomez to highlight mental health, with Gomez appearance in three minute video with Biden, first Lady Jill Biden and Vivek H. Murthy, Surgeon General to discuss issue.
But in some points Tuesday, administration anti-discrimination message wanted to convey was a little overshadowed by the sheer hysteria in the briefing room – and outside gates of the White House.
Outside, hundreds of fans – mostly young girls – gathered in hope of throwing a detached glance at the K-pop group and how they waited in scorching sun, they chanted names of seven members and shouted, “BTS! BTS!
Inside, scores of interested journalists, many of them of Korean origin, clogged aisles at least half- one hour before the scheduled briefing begin – manufacturing already cramped room even more suffocating. Veteran journalists joked that the briefing room hadn’t been this crowded since of Sean Spicer as Press secretary when the shows became must-sees on TV for all wrong reasons at least for administration of Donald Trump.
Tuesday live stream of a briefing at the White House usually attracts several hundred interested viewers. But ahead of in start of 14:30 session about 11,000 settled in for in show. Ten minutes before the briefing, about 71,000 online. A couple of minutes after official start of briefing – which started a few minutes later behind schedule — a whopping 197,000 watched.
more than 300,000 on in live broadcast as Diz, White House Representative director of The National Economic Council spoke up to the pulpit and began to speak. (number of views declined the longer Dees talked about inflation.)
“Okay, so I’ll go home and tell my kids that BTS is open for me,” Dees said to reporters laughing. “I did not expect that when I wake up up this morning. And I know that you’re all here to talk about the trimmed average inflation, and you’re as excited about it as you are for them.”
