Donald Trump was handing out high fives and celebrating the holiday with children at the annual White House Easter egg roll, earning favorable comparisons to predecessor Joe Biden.

The 78-year-old president mocked Biden earlier in the day, referencing the 2022 ceremony when the Easter Bunny had ‘rescued’ a confused-looking Biden from an embarrassing gaffe.

The president was nearly as popular as the bunny at this year’s egg roll, seen in clips high-fiving and drawing with children.

Trump, at one point, exclaimed: ‘I’m really into this!’  

While some found his high-five with one child awkward, the majority of social media felt it was a welcome reprieve from the Biden-era, who baffled onlookers by his odd, touchy and even ‘sniffing’ behavior around young people.  

‘If nothing else, we have a POTUS you can trust around kids, and that’s a major improvement,’ wrote one.

‘He is so great with kids, but in an appropriate non-sniffing way,’ added another. 

One supporter said: ‘The kids ran toward him like he was Santa, Superman, and recess all rolled into one. That’s what leadership with presence looks like.’

Some liberals tried to take away from Trump’s sweet moments with the youth on Monday, by referring to his eyebrow-raising comments over the years about girls and women. 

But others pointed out that Biden had a bizarre history of odd behavior with children while performing official appearances as president. 

In October 2024, just weeks before the election, Joe Biden ‘playfully’ bit a baby’s leg during a trick-or-treat Halloween event – which triggered negative comments at the time. 

He also appeared to touch his mouth to the arm of a baby, and take the feet of two other babies in his mouth during the same strange event. 

During a 2020 event in Florida, Biden told a group of underage female dancers: ‘I’m coming back and I want to see these beautiful young ladies, I want to see them dancing when they are four years older too!’

In 2019, he told a 10-year-old girl: ‘I’ll bet you’re as bright as you are good-looking.’

He has similarly been photographed over the years kissing and touching young girls and women during public events. 

Joe Biden also had notorious moments with the Easter Bunny, including in 2022.

Biden was filmed speaking with reporters and guests at the cheerful holiday event when he began discussing Afghanistan, eight months after he presided over the US military’s chaotic withdrawal from Kabul that ended 20 years of American boots on the ground there.

The former president, now 82, started to answer Afghan reporter Nazira Karimi’s question and was heard saying: ‘Pakistan should not and Afghanistan should be — people should be free…’

But Meghan Hays, the former White House press official and director of message planning who was dressed as the Easter Bunny, quickly interrupted him and ushered him away in a desperate bid to avoid another gaffe in 2022. 

Republican operatives on Twitter mocked the silly moment, at the time.

‘How bad does the White House staff have to think Biden is to calculate that sending in the EASTER BUNNY to interrupt a gaggle is better optics than whatever he was about to say on Afghanistan?’ former Orrin Hatch aide Matt Whitlock said.

Meanwhile, Trump won laughs from his wife Melania with a cheeky joke about the Easter bunny at the White House‘s annual egg roll on Monday. 

With crowds gathered and the Easter bunny primed, the President couldn’t resist an opportunity to prod his predecessor. 

‘Remember when the Easter bunny took out Joe Biden?’ he said, harkening back to an awkward Easter Monday in 2022, when the bunny ‘rescued’ a confused-looking Biden. 

‘He’s not going to be taking Trump out!’ the president mused today. 

Melania, who was hovering nearby, giggled at the jab.

The First Lady dazzled fans on the White House lawn in an effortlessly chic beige trench coat. 

It is her first public appearance for several weeks.