Trump says it was NOT the reason he decided to run for President…
( He ran and won against Hillary Clinton in 2016…)
Obama dissed him BIG TIME at the 2011 White House Correspondent Dinner…
The President had the room laughing AT Donald J. Trump…..
Obama starts at 1.46 into the video…
…At the end of the dinner, Trump was swarmed by reporters demanding to know what he thought. He told them he’d had a great time and was honored to be skewered by the president. And then he headed to the airport to jet home. Pundits took that as yet more proof that he was upset, but some VIPs stick around for the after-parties, and some beeline to their private jets — which is why, Trump says, he didn’t linger.
The next morning, the newspapers had a different version that boiled down to “Trump humiliated.” Trump says he was baffled by the headlines, because that wasn’t his take on the night. “I didn’t know that I’d be virtually the sole focus, and I guess when you’re leading in most of the polls, that tends to happen,” he told “Fox & Friends” the next morning. “I thought Seth Meyers, frankly, his delivery was not good — he’s a stutterer and he really was having a hard time.”
In retrospect, Trump broke the classic rule of political humor that says that the only response to a joke about you is to laugh harder than anyone else in the room. Whatever he was thinking, Trump lookedunhappy and gave pundits a reason to pounce.
Never one to let facts get in the way of a good story, the New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik decided that this was the night that changed everything. “Not only, as we did not know then, was President Obama in the midst of the operation that would lead shortly to Osama bin Laden’s killing,” he wrote last fall, “it was also the night when, despite that preoccupation, the President took apart Donald Trump, plastic piece by orange part, and then refused to put him back together again.”
Based on his seat a few tables away, Gopnik was not only able to observe Trump but apparently also believed that he could read Trump’s mind. “On that night, Trump’s own sense of public humiliation became so overwhelming that he decided, perhaps at first unconsciously, that he would, somehow, get his own back — perhaps even pursue the Presidency after all, no matter how nihilistically or absurdly, and redeem himself,” he wrote last fall.
This narrative flies in the face of actual history…
image…Donald Trump stares at the stage as comedian Seth Meyers makes fun of him at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. (Image from C-SPAN )
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