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People are loving this viral clip of a man calmly eating his food amid the chaos at the White House correspondents’ dinner, and he’s the Zen hero you need today

Michael White. Updated April 26th, 2026

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Everybody responds differently in a crisis.

We know about the “fight or flight” mode; now thanks to this one Zen hero at the White House correspondents’ dinner, we have the “sit and eat” trauma response.

This short clip of the male guest sitting calmly at his table, eating his food, as everyone else around him panics and ducks for cover has gone insanely viral overnight.

And people cannot get enough of him.

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