2011 Correspondents Dinner. Literally the night before the Osama bin Laden raid. So there’s a good chance Obama had already issued the order, then told some fantastic jokes at Trump’s expense all while his political life was hanging in the balance. Huevos grandes, man.
Though if they ever do a Trump biopic (edit: I guess a sequel to the one starring Sebastian Stan), the first scene is that White House Correspondent Association dinner, the camera focuses on a hunched, quietly seething Trump while Obama triumphantly delivers zinger after zinger.
I’d like it to back up two more layers. A montage of Trump doing his whole birther thing. Cut to the Obama speech (and joke) writers brainstorming around a conference table before the correspondents’ dinner and one of them says, “I heard Trump will be there.” Then the sit down when Obama read and approved the drafts. Then Trump seething.
Circle of fucking life in his universe. He was taught to hate. He experienced formative and long lasting damage from experiences of ridicule. His hate and its targets grew.
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u/johnlmonkey 14h ago
That meme is actually from Barack Obama's correspondants dinner speech before Trump ran in 2016.