Before Donald Trump's cheeseburger orgies, White House dinners were said to be quite drunk.
The singer Bono himself was able to experience the hospitality of the American Presidency.
In his memoirs, published on November 1, the star of the Irish group U2 retraced the main features of a bacchanalia in which he had delivered one evening, in Washington, in the company of President Barack Obama.
Or, at least, what he manages to remember.
Like all feasts worthy of the name, it is at the end that Bono remembers the adventure.
The end of this undated evening took place… the former bedroom of Abraham Lincoln.
The rocker was taking a nap in the four-poster bed of the former American president when his wife, Alison Hewson, accompanied by Obama, found him.
The host of the White House had remembered some questions grumbled a little earlier by Bono, about the speech of Gettysburg, delivered by the sixteenth president of the United States at the end of the Civil War.
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"And there I was, in Lincoln's room, asleep...Asleep in the lap of Abraham himself
," Bono said in an interview with BBC Radio 2, describing the scene where Barack Obama found him comfortably sprawled. in the presidential bed.
He woke me up and laughed.
The president laughed out loud.
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The Irish singer had not thrown himself on the duvet on a whim.
He had felt the need to
“fall asleep somewhere”
because of the state in which he had been ingested – wine and a few cocktails, according to the person concerned.
Bono nevertheless denied having abused distilled beverages and would have simply suffered from his allergy to salicylates, present in certain fruits and in wines.
"He just needs to go to sleep, he'll be back in 10 minutes. I've been with him for 30 years, don't worry about him
,” Alison Hewson would have slipped to the other dinner guests, according to Bono's testimony.
Alas, the singer had slipped away before the guests did not end up worrying about his fate.
And Barack Obama?
Did the former president survive this famous evening with knockout swigs?
“He prepares cocktails, he doesn't take too many, he is very measured,”
Bono tempered.
It was postponed.
The singer has since remained good friends with the President.