--- title: VIDEO: President Obama's 2014 WHCA Dinner Speech description: Jokes with the White House correspondents canonical: https://time.com/86976/president-obamas-2014-white-house-correspondents-association-dinner-speech/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-04T03:37:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T07:38:32.455Z article:section: Politics og:title: VIDEO: President Obama's 2014 WHCA Dinner Speech og:description: Jokes with the White House correspondents og:url: https://time.com/86976/president-obamas-2014-white-house-correspondents-association-dinner-speech/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt07e74a2bae8d4d76/69868dc5adae44ce96542e81/488060977.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 100th Annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: VIDEO: President Obama's 2014 WHCA Dinner Speech twitter:description: Jokes with the White House correspondents twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt07e74a2bae8d4d76/69868dc5adae44ce96542e81/488060977.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # President Obama's 2014 White House Correspondents Association Dinner Speech by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video May 4, 2014 3:37 AM UTC  US President Barack Obama attends at the annual White House Correspondent's Association Gala at the Washington Hilton hotel May 3, 2014 in Washington, DC. US President Barack Obama attends at the annual White House Correspondent's Association Gala at the Washington Hilton hotel May 3, 2014 in Washington, DC.Olivier Douliery—Pool/Getty Images by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video May 4, 2014 3:37 AM UTC President Obama addressed the 2014 dinner of the White House Correspondents Association Saturday. He congratulated the group on their 100th anniversary and made jokes about Ted Cruz, Chris Christie, Cliven Bundy and the struggles of the Obamacare rollout. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/86976/president-obamas-2014-white-house-correspondents-association-dinner-speech/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/86976/president-obamas-2014-white-house-correspondents-association-dinner-speech/"},"headline":"President Obama's 2014 White House Correspondents Association Dinner Speech","datePublished":"2014-05-04T03:37:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T07:38:32.455Z","description":"Watch the president's full speech from the 2014 \"Nerd Prom\"","url":"https://time.com/86976/president-obamas-2014-white-house-correspondents-association-dinner-speech/","keywords":["Barack Obama","2014","President Obama","Speech","White House Correspondents Dinner"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt07e74a2bae8d4d76/69868dc5adae44ce96542e81/488060977.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt07e74a2bae8d4d76/69868dc5adae44ce96542e81/488060977.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"100th Annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner","caption":"100th Annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner","creditText":"Olivier Douliery—Pool/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/86976/president-obamas-2014-white-house-correspondents-association-dinner-speech/","name":"President Obama's 2014 White House Correspondents Association Dinner Speech"}}]}] ```