WASHINGTON – Dozens of children, accompanied by their parents, received sweets on Friday from the hands of the President of the United States, Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, in the traditional Halloween celebration in Washington.
In front of a White House decorated for the occasion, with pumpkins and autumn bushes, the president greeted the children who passed through the South Lawn of his residence asking for the traditional “trick or treat” dressed as princes and princesses, characters from the Star Wars saga or teddy bears.
Biden, dressed in a blue coat and baseball cap with his wife, dressed as a butterfly, with a purple wig and blue wings, sweets were handed out from a couple of brown baskets to the little guests, who greeted them on a rainy afternoon in the US capital.
The children were the children of firefighters, nurses, local police officers and members of the National Guard, which also They also came to accompany them.
In the event, where a live band played the soundtrack of “Harry Potter” and the television series “Game of Thrones”, representatives of the Department of Education also participated , the Department of Transportation and NASA, among other government officials, the White House reported in a statement.
From 1953, under the Administration of Dwight Eisenhower (1953-1961), the The US president has a tradition of receiving families on Halloween afternoon, which is celebrated in the country on 31 in October.
More than 73 millions of children took to the streets trick-or-treating across the US in 1961, the latest date for which data is available, according to the country’s Census Bureau.