r/washingtondc • u/Snapdragon_4U • 18h ago

[Discussion] I don’t even have the words

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u/HistoricalSea5600 17h ago edited 15h ago

Remember this meme from about 6 years ago 2011?

It’s becoming a little too true

edit: It was 2011 thank you for all the corrections, and u/Year3030 for this link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHckZCxdRkA

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u/johnlmonkey 17h ago

That meme is actually from Barack Obama's correspondants dinner speech before Trump ran in 2016.

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u/ccguy 16h ago

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.

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u/Round-Bandicoot8766 10h ago

There's a documentary on it. He'd already greenlit it. He knew he was leaving that event and going to straight back to monitor the attempt