BREAKING NEWS – Washington, D.C. – President Biden said he would be “in trouble” if he continued to take questions from reporters during a rare back-and-forth with the press Tuesday afternoon.

After speaking about new federal health guidelines for mask-wearing for vaccinated and non-vaccinated individuals, Biden answered a few shouted questions from gathered reporters at the White House.

“I’m sorry,” he said, after listening to questions about his own mask-wearing and a potential summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “This is the last question I’ll take, and I’m really gonna be in trouble.”

He was overheard saying to one of his staff as he was leaving the podium, “Kamala is gonna slap me silly. I promised her I wouldn’t take any questions that could possibly reflect on our joint stupidity. The agreement was, I would stay away from press conferences, and she’ll stay away from the border.”