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Barack Obama has very good writers.
Soon after opening with a joke at the expense of Donald Trump, the president recalled his personal history, ending, "And of course, I was born in Hawaii," and giving a conspiratorial wink.
He recalled that four years ago he was locked in a bitter primary with Hillary Clinton. "Four years later she won't stop drunk-texting me from Cartagena" he japed.
Our favorite so far was this: "What's the difference between a hockey mom and a Pitbull? A Pitbull is delicious!" he said, taking on the Obama eats dogs jokes from the conservative media.
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murielm99
(30,740 posts)Trump has no sense of humor. He gets really angry when anyone makes jokes at his expense. He thinks he is too important and kinglike to be laughed at. If he ran the world his way, such people would be beheaded.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)I think The Donald acts like something between a caricature of Donald Duck and a two-year-old.
Wait, that may be the same thing. Holy quacamole.
ashling
(25,771 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)he has a future in comedy
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Cleita
(75,480 posts)I'm wondering what The Donald did to piss him off so much? It's beyond Trump's everyday arrogance.
SunSeeker
(51,557 posts)Cleita
(75,480 posts)both those lizard guys.
SunSeeker
(51,557 posts)That's why Limbaugh thinks all women are whores. They're the only kind of women he's ever gotten.
mfcorey1
(11,001 posts)Cleita
(75,480 posts)that someone has it out for another person. Surely, you haven't been in a cave for a hundred years not to know that.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)that when he said a year ago he took somebody down everyone would think it was Osama Bin Laden, which is what happened. But instead he said he took Trump down. That's the punch line.
It was funny because of that.
Trying to explain funny is hard.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)The Donald is such an easy target for comedy plus he was a birther which is another reason that makes him an easy target.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)Good thing Orly Taitz, doesn't go to those affairs, I can't even imagine what he would target her with.